In Russia, it was proposed to change the provision of medical certificates for motorists: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
The Ministry of Health has prepared a draft of a new procedure for obtaining a driver’s medical certificate. About it writes Kommersant.
The document proposed by the department defines a risk group in which drivers with clinical signs of drug addiction disappear. In particular, according to the conceived rules of motorists who will be sent to a full-fledged expensive laboratory analysis, bypassing express urine analysis.
The same fate awaits drivers with excessive sweating, excessively low heart rate, drowsiness, agitation, hand tremors or emotional instability. In this case, the basis will be the identification by the narcologist at the same time of three signs of drug use.
In November 2019, the Ministry of Health intended to amend the procedure for compulsory medical examination, increasing the volume of research. It was assumed that the cost of passing the commission will increase several times. Information about the new rules caused a stir among drivers; in several cities of Russia, queues of people wishing to issue a medical certificate for obtaining or exchanging a driver’s license at the same price lined up at once. Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the new procedure for medical examinations for drivers nonsense. It with the need for additional surveys related to drug use, but is designed to be smart about the approval of specific methods.
Earlier it was reported that Russians wishing to obtain a car license will have to undergo a new medical test. To obtain a medical certificate, future drivers will be required to donate blood for carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), a marker indicating chronic alcoholism. In the case of their citizen, they will be sent to a narcological dispensary.