[Healthcare at water transport]

The timely restructuring of healthcare at water transport is an issue of special importance under the social-and-economic conditions of today. The paper mirrors positive and negative aspects of the present state medical care provided to those occupied at water transport system of the North-West Okrug of the Russian Federation. The virtually identical standard of medical care rendered to the discussed category of employees is observed in other Okrugs of Russia. A model of medical care for seamen for the at-sea and on-shore conditions is put forward. In order to preserve and to promote the discussed sphere of healthcare it is necessary to preserve the positive traditions of the past and, jointly with the interested branches, departments and public and other organizations, to apply the modern methods healthcare organization, i.e. to reorganize some of the sectors, to introduce a strict Register of institutions and organizations preoccupied with medical are at water transport and to develop and to introduce new technologies in all spheres of medical care within the branch.