Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»1484Научная статьяCOVID-19 PANDEMIA: LESSONS IN LABOR RATIONING OF MEDICINESShipovaV. Mvschipova@yandex.ruBersenevaE. Aeaberseneva@gmail.comN.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, Moscow, Russian Federation17122020341108042022Copyright © 2020,2020Planning the number of health workers is an essential part of the health organization. The urgency of the problem was exacerbated by any emergency situations: pandemics, earthquakes, accidents at nuclear power plants and other possible unforeseen circumstances. In those cases, questions were inevitably raised as to the need for and extent to which additional expertise would be required to work during the peak of the situation and during the period of its aftermath, the mobilization of resources for the provision of medical care to victims and the provision of necessary assistance to chronic patients and patients with newly emerging pathologies that did not involve emergency situations but required urgent action. The lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of labor rationing are devoted to this article. The publication presents an analysis of the regulatory and legal document on labor, approved by order of the Ministry of Health of Russia to draw up a temporary staffing table for the infectious disease department for patients with COVID-19. The authors note the controversial provisions of the order regarding labor rationing, consisting in recommendations on the normative provision of round-the-clock work, on the calculation of the number of posts according to the volume of work in the absence of time standards per unit of work, the absence of changes in the staffing of emergency medical care, and the reduction of the number of junior medical personnel in the anesthesiology-intensive care unit with intensive care and intensive care wards.labor rationingpandemicnew coronavirus infection COVID-19labor regulatory framework24-hour labor regimeнормирование трудапандемияновая коронавирусная инфекция COVID-19нормативно-правовая базатрудкруглосуточный режим труда1.Ресурсы и деятельность медицинских организаций. - М.: Центральный научно-исследовательский институт организации и информатизации здравоохранения,2019. - URL:http://zdravalt.ru/jdownloads/stat/Statinform/res1.pdf2.Шипова В.М. Организация и технология нормирования труда в здравоохранении / В.М. Шипова. - М.: ГЭОТАР-Медиа, 2018. - 312 с.3.Шипова В.М. Актуальные вопросы планирования численности должностей при разных режимах работы: Учебное пособие / В.М. Шипова, Е.А. Берсенева, Д.Ю. Михайлов. - М.: Светлица, 2020. - 144 с.4.Resources and activities of medical organizations. Moscow, Central Research Institute of Health Organization and Informatization, 2019. URL:http://zdravalt.ru/jdownloads/stat/Statinform/res1.pdf5.Schipova V.M. Organization and technology of labor rationing in healthcare. Moscow, Geotar-Media, 2018. 312 p.6.Schipova V.M., Berseneva E.A., Mikhailov D.U. Current issues of planning the number of posts in the different modes of operation: manual. Moscow,Svetlitza, 2020. 144 p.