The resolution of the IV-th Russian Homeopathic Congress

The resolution

of the IV-th Russian Homeopathic Congress

(the 24th of October, 2009, Moscow)

The members of the IV-th Russian Homeopathic Congress, having discussed the reports and speeches of representatives of medical science, general practitioners, organizators of public health, domestic and foreign manufacturers of homeopathic medicinal agents, note with pleasure that the homeopathic treatment method have been taking the more significant place in medical practice on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The number of doctors using homeopathic preparations for preventive measures and treatment has been growing. The number of patients who prefer recovering their health with a help of available and effective homeopathic preparations have been increasing.
The carried out scientific researches let to study the action mechanism of homeopathic preparations much deeper, and further the integration of homeopathy and allopathy as the constituent parts of an overall process of diseases' treatment.
Despite the global financial-economical crisis, the homeopathy holds its positions in the pharmaceutical market thanks to the reasonable prices and high demand of the population.
At the same time, the Congress' members note that the opportunities of homeopathy are used by the domestic public health not in full.
Till the present time there was not made any normative document that regulates the doctor's activity - phytotherapists, apitherapist, hirudotherapist, in medical organizations. The work on the creation of the normative base on registration, manufacturing, quality control, and the circulation of homeopathic medicinal agents with a glance of specific features of homeopathy in the country has been procrastinated, and, in spite of all this, a rich foreign experience has been still ignored. The unfounded administrative barriers hold the manufacturing development and expansion of domestic homeopathic assortment that creates the competitive advantages for foreign manufacturers.
The federal and regional board of executive authority doesn't implement in full the Determination Решение operational conference of Security Council from the 9th of February, 2008 "On the provision measures for population, institutions of the system of public health and armed force of the Russian Federation with medicinal agents of domestic manufacturing".
The decision of the Government of the Russian Federation on the development of domestic medical industry is executed unsystematically and with a low quality that gives no opportunity to speed up the formation the balanced competitive environment in the pharmaceutical market, and equal competitive conditions for domestic and foreign manufacturers.

The IV-th Russian Homeopathic Congress decrees:
1. to the organizing committee to generalize and introduce the proposals on introduction of changes and additions into the project of the Federal Law "On the medicinal agents' circulation" with a glance of homeopathic specification on the basis of domestic experience and appropriate documentation of the European Union to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and The Ministry of public health and social development of Russia.
2. to appeal to the Ministry of public health and social development of the Russian Federation with a proposal to initiate the development of the Federal special-purpose program on development and expansion of using the homeopathic method in the practice of public health.
3. to propose to the Federal Inspection Service in the field of public health and social development (Roszdravnadzor) to speed up the forming and approval of the normative base for registration, manufacturing, control, and circulation of homeopathic agents, having harmonized it with the respective normative base of the European Union.
4. to propose to the Federal scientific clinico-experimental centre of traditional diagnostic methods and treatment to provide with the systematization of cooperation with federal and regional board of executive authority with a purpose of expansion the use of homeopathic method in the practical public health.
5. to propose to professional public organizations working in the field of homeopathy to raise the level of coordination and integration for expansion of the use of homeopathic method in practical public health by forming the target working group on the practical problems solving.
6. to introduce the members of organizing committee of the Congress into the standing Presidium of the Russian homeopathic Congress for the world provision with:
• the organization and control of implementation of the congress's decisions;
• the cooperation with a board of the executive authority and professional public organizations on realization the congress's decisions;
• the preparation, organization, and carrying out the concrete events on the execution the congress's decisions;
• the fixing the date of holding, preparation of summary report and draft decision of the V-th Russian Homeopathic Congress in 2011.
7. to oblige the standing Presidium of the Russian homeopathic Congress to carry out the necessary actions on creation the National Board of Homeopathy and ensure the realization of measures on consolidation of actions of professional public organizations and the board of the executive authority with a view for further development of homeopathy in the Russian Federation.

The resolution was adopted unanimously on the 24th of October, 2009.
The organizing committee of the IV-th Russian Homeopathic Congress.