The school shooting incident in the Kazan city was a terrible catastrophe and a barbaric crime, Vladimir Putin said at Сabinet Meeting on Thursday.
The meeting began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the barbaric crime. Now the most important thing is the struggle for the lives of the wounded and the support of those in whose home trouble has come. The authorities - federal and regional - must and will help in everything.
Helping the affected families is a top priority, the president made clear. All departments and ministries are in touch, to which the head of state, after the very first reports of the tragedy, gave instructions to start work on the spot and develop a set of support measures.
Those who suffered the most from the shooting in the Kazan gymnasium, five schoolchildren and four adults, were brought to Moscow on the eve of a special flight of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, accompanied by doctors from the CentroSpas detachment and the Center for Disaster Medicine.
The victims were assigned to six leading federal clinics, and the best specialists were involved. As Putin stressed, all the possibilities of Russian health care will be used for rescue and rehabilitation.
Another 14 children are being treated at the republican hospital in Kazan, their lives are not in danger. One student was discharged in satisfactory condition.
People continue to bring flowers and soft toys to the school, where nine people have become victims of an armed criminal. For the third day already, the head of the republic, Rustam Minnikhanov, has directly reported the situation in Tatarstan to the President.
In order to provide assistance to the victims, it was decided to make payments from the republican budget: one million rubles to family members of the victims, 400 thousand rubles to those who received serious or moderate damage to their health, 200 thousand rubles to those who received minor damage to their health. Of course, it is planned to organize recreation for both children and teachers in the summer, head of Tatarstan reported.
The tragedy in Kazan showed that there are still problems with the security of educational institutions. There are also questions about the availability of weapons, control over their circulation.
Vladimir Putin demanded to tighten control over the circulation of weapons and raise requirements for its owners. The responsibility for everyone who issues a weapon permit and the necessary documents must also be tough. It is necessary to exclude the possibility of buying certificates for money; for this, the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, suggested issuing them only in state institutions. Where it is necessary to establish electronic interaction between departments, so that information about any medical deviations is available in the general system, and clinics are not covered with a screen about medical secrecy.
A separate task is to support the school staff and provide psychological assistance to teachers who did everything to save the students.
The head of state gave another instruction to the government: if necessary, provide additional assistance to the victims. Many of them will have a long rehabilitation. The authorities of Tatarstan have already decided to carry out major repairs at the school in order to erase the traces of the monstrous crime and leave the memory of everyone who became its victims.
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