Lukashenka Bans Leaving Country for Health Professionals :: Charter'97 :: News

“It looks like the upcoming elections in Belarus have made the head of the state demented. After prohibiting discrediting of the country for the journalists, going abroad for students and models, Alyaksandr Lukashenka proceeded to… physicians. They are the main keepers of the most important state secrets,” to this opinion the newspaper “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” inclines, having red ate document distributed by the Health Care Ministry of Belarus among the medical institutions of the country.

The document states that foreign trips of health professionals, not related to their professional activities, in a written form are to ask for an agreement of the chairman of the health care committee. Besides, after returning from the foreign trip, the chairman of the committee is to be informed about possible contacts with foreigners, which had not been planned in the program of the visit…

The newspaper reminds of the presidential decree prohibiting going abroad for studies without agreement of the Education Ministry. Notably, the permission is to be signed by he minister personally. The Belarusians cannot go abroad for work legally too. They are to receive authorization of the Internal Affairs Ministry. State officials are another category of citizens for whom foreign trips limited. They are to authorize their trips. And now health professionals are added.