K / f "Sovremennik No. 20-21" is dedicated to health problems in the city of Kuibyshev and the Kuibyshev region. The city of Kuibyshev, 1988. Reception of a pediatrician in a children's clinic located in a residential building in the Volga microdistrict: the doctor listens to the girl's lungs, examines the oral cavity. Adults and children sit and stand in the cramped corridor. The doctor talks about the weak material and technical base of the clinic (sync., Behind the scenes). Vyacheslav Ivanovich Kalinin, Head of the Main Directorate of Medical and Preventive Aid of the USSR Ministry of Health, at a meeting on new methods of management, planning and financing of medical care based on self-financing, speaks of the need to study problems on the ground before reforming healthcare Patients in the wards of the oncological dispensary. The nurse is on duty. The doctor on the round. The type of offices and premises in disrepair, with outdated medical equipment. The chief physician of the oncological dispensary, Vladimir Mikhailovich Sukharev, speaks of the location of most medical institutions in unsuitable buildings and premises, which affects the quality of health care (sinhr.). Togliatti city, 1988. A nurse walks along the corridor of the new AvtoVAZ hospital building. View of modern equipment in the operating unit. Kuibyshev region, the village of Nizhnee Sancheleevo, 1988. A doctor examines an infant in a rural hospital; the man is lying on the bed; patients in line to see a doctor; view of the stove in the corridor of the hospital. The chief doctor of the hospital, Ivan Yegorovich Kalashnikov, talks about the hospital's 100th anniversary, about the absence of positive changes in working conditions during this period, about the need for a new building, equipment for providing qualified medical care to the rural population (sync.). Togliatti city, 1988. View of a modern ultrasound apparatus in the polyclinic of the medical unit No. 7. A man in a pressure chamber. Blood sampling from a child. Nurse and patients in the office of electrotherapy, mechanotherapy. Dentist at work. Patients read books in the day hospital department. View of the pool and gym.