MOSCOW, October 3 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Supreme Court has approved submission of a bill establishing exclusive sanatoriums for judges to the State Duma, RAPSI correspondent reports from the court’s plenum on Tuesday.

The bill grants the Judicial Department at the Supreme Court a right to establish facilities providing medical help and sanatorium treatment to judges, including retired ones, supporting staff of courts, staff of the department and its bodies. Authors of the bill note that judicial system is the only branch of power without its own sanatorium bases.

According to the court, this change will not require additional funds from the budget.