I. Metshin: “The more active the residents, the sooner the issues are resolved”

The transcript of the TV program “Theme” on the channel “Efir” with the participation of the Mayor of Kazan:

Anchorman: The broadcast continues with the program “Theme”, I'm Alexei Kuleshov. Our guest is Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. Mister Metshin, good evening!

Ilsur Metshin: Good evening, Alexei!

A.K.: Ilsur Metshin will answer questions that you sent to us. Unfortunately, we will not be able to ask all the questions. Mr. Metshin, traditionally everyone who applies will personally receive a response with your signature?

I.M.: Yes, Alexei, according to the results of the last program, I received about 220 appeals. Before I came to you, I specified once again: a positive decision was taken already for 49 ones. About another 30 appeals await their decision in the near future, the rest are in work. Not all of them are at the address, but people are used to addressing in personal. As they say, the local government is on the front line, that's why any questions are addressed to us. Now there are mostly questions on snow removal and illegal parking. Someone complains that the door at the entrance does not close, and a number of other questions. <...>

There were many questions about Salmachy. Their number increased in March: the snow melted down, the pits showed up, and today people stand there in a traffic jam during rush hour for an hour. Firstly, we have already started the patching repairs, the weather allows more or less. In general, the decision will be made this year, although this is also a half-hearted decision. We will expand the central street to four lanes, and shift all the networks under the canvas. It will take time and create some inconvenience for those residents who already experience them today. I ask for patience, and the four-lane road will appear this summer in Salmachi. This will unload the flow that is going there today at least somehow.

Once again I repeat that there are a lot of questions and appeals about this village. The road-double is needed, and this will cost billions of rubles. We addressed this question to the President and found support. For now, the money is allocated for the first stage in order to start designing.

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A.K.: There is a question from our viewer. Good evening, you're on the air.

A viewer: Good evening, Mr. Metshin!

I.M.: Good evening.

V: I've been living in Kazan all my life, recently retired. Elderly people often say that everything in life is getting worse, but I do not agree. Our house is renovated, and beautiful sports and children's playground, parking spaces and roads appeared. But here is an urgent issue for us, pensioners: the work of polyclinics. It is very difficult to get to specialists. It is not possible to get urgently to a rheumatologist, a cardiologist, and to your therapist when you are ill. We have to make our way to the duty doctor.

A.K.: Thank you very much for your question. In fact, Mr. Metshin, the problem is really relevant, too.

I.M.: Firstly, I thank for the question. Thank you for the fact that a respected pensioner sees those changes that take place in the city and in his yard: both the overhaul of the yard, and the overhaul of his house.

Of course, people turn to the primary network in the question of health. Statistics show that 80% of the Kazan residents’ appeals are to the primary network. The question is absolutely clear, and I am ready to answer it, anyway, to tell what we are going to do.

First of all, this is the problem of the whole country. <...> The health care was financed by a residual principle, beginning with the collapse of the Soviet Union. <...> Today, the situation is changing, the state pays much attention to this. And, of course, first of all, attention was paid to our hospitals, emergency aid points, where patients arrive, where people's lives are saved. There is no federal program yet for polyclinics, but the polyclinic № 21 on Zorge Street will be repaired and opened this year, as the Ministry of Health assured us. And also, we will finish the FAP (Rus. Paramedical and obstetric point) in the Voznesensky.

In general, the President announced at the reporting sessions of the Kazan City Duma that a new program for overhauling policlinics will be launched. There are such instructions, the design and estimate documentation is already being developed. The President plans to repair the entire primary network of both the capital and the republic in the next 3-4 years. <...>

The most serious program “Friendly polyclinic” is launched. This is a completely different quality of work, a new approach in the work of polyclinics. It's not far away, it's not some distant bright future. This is what we will see in the next 2-3 years.

A.K.: All right. Let's get just one more phone call. Good evening.

A viewer: Mr. Metshin, I have the following question for you. We moved to the 2-nd Azinskaya three years ago, and when buying an apartment, we hoped that the school would appear soon. But the construction kept stopping and resuming, and this year we are already going to school and yet do not know which one. Other schools are far away, and I would like to ask you, if we will have a school? Thank you.

I.M.: Thank you for the question. There will be a school. Indeed, the funding was intermittent. We very much counted on the federal program, which Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, announced in his statement in 2015. The statement is also a serious program product that cannot be done in one day. The first federal money has come, and this school will be completed on them. Today, roofing works are carrying out there. I recently visited, and I have no doubt that the school will be completed by April 1. It is necessary. The private sector was there earlier along the 2nd Azinskaya street, and today there are new buildings, the micro district is growing by the number of children, playgrounds, and young moms with strollers. It’s all pleasing. So there will be a school. Usually, we open a set for first-graders in February. In new schools, I think, the reserving will begin already in April, so our esteemed TV viewer will be able to contact and to book her child there.

The second school is being built this year in the RC “Sed’moe Nebo”. We plan to finish it this year.

In general, about the program: 4 schools for 4 896 student places will be built in Kazan until 2020 under the program of federal construction of schools. This cannot be called a drop in the sea, almost 5,000 student places, but the shortage is huge. Children go on second shift in some schools. And according to the educational standard, everyone should study in one shift.

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A.K.: Thank you very much. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, was visiting. Thank you again, and I thank our audience for their attention!