{"id":495288,"date":"2025-11-06T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=495288"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:12:52","slug":"lukashenka-threatens-to-introduce-paid-medical-services-for-those-who-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-threatens-to-introduce-paid-medical-services-for-those-who-left","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Threatens to Introduce Paid Medical Services for Those Who Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> expressed outrage that Belarusians who left the country for work return home to receive free medical services. He promised to \u201cfix\u201d the situation.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAbout 10\u201312 thousand people went to Poland. Some say a million left. It doesn\u2019t matter how many. But they come to Hrodna to fix their teeth. Why? Because it\u2019s free. Nothing is free. The budget\u2014the state\u2014pays for you. Therefore, a decision will be made on this,\u201d<\/i> he said today at a ceremony marking the opening of a bridge over the Prypyat River in Mazyr.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka said that the authorities would not prevent people from going abroad to work, especially to Russia, but they must pay for medical services.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cYou go abroad looking for a good place to earn money\u2014fine, we won\u2019t stop you. Especially if you go to Russia. But when you make good money, come back here and pay. We\u2019ll pull your tooth or whatever you need\u2014but only at your expense,\u201d<\/i> he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lukashenka, people should work in their own country, and business leaders must do everything possible to pay salaries.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe have plenty of enterprises. There\u2019s work to be done. I want to publicly warn managers: whatever kind of business you have\u2014loss-making or rundown\u2014you must pay wages even if it kills you. That\u2019s the main thing. If we don\u2019t pay decent salaries, we\u2019ll lose people,\u201d<\/i> his press service quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Lukashenka has promised to address the issue of healthcare for those who left.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBecause you must understand: they come here to fix their teeth cheaply and treat other illnesses\u2014at your expense. You pay taxes as individuals, and your enterprises pay taxes too. They come here for cheap treatment,\u201d<\/i> he said in April 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka expressed outrage that Belarusians who left the country for work return home to receive free medical services. He promised to \u201cfix\u201d the situation. \u201cAbout 10\u201312 thousand people went to Poland. Some say a million left. It doesn\u2019t matter how many. But they come to Hrodna to fix their teeth. Why? Because it\u2019s free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690c90c95f546.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Threatens to Introduce Paid Medical Services for Those Who Left"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}