Upharmacia September 2017
HEALTHCARE NEWS
T he M o H P lans to S tart a P ilot
P roject on K idney T ransplanta -
tion
In 2018, the MOH plans to
implement a pilot project for kidney
transplantation from an unrelated
cadaver donor, the Ministry’s Head
Ulana Suprun stated. The state
funding of the program envisages
UAH 100 mio of annual allocations
in 2019-2020.
“Six thousand Ukrainians with
renal insufficiency continue to be
dependent on hemodialysis”, Mrs.
Suprun reported. “Next year, within
the project, we will be able to carry
out kidney transplantation in Kyiv,
Zaporizhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv and
Lviv”.
The Draft Law on transplantation
was approved in the first reading
in Apr 2016, but the document is
still under consideration by the
Parliament. It is expected to be
finalized by the working group in
Oct.
T he D raft L aw on R ural
M edicine was R egistered in
P arliament
Presidential Draft Law “On the
improving the accessibility and
quality of medical care in rural
areas” was registered in Ukrainian
Parliament for consideration.
Earlier Ukrainian President
initiated the reforming of the
health care system in rural areas,
which includes increasing salaries
for physicians, building modern
outpatient clinics, and developing
telemedicine. The Draft Budget
2018 envisages provision of UAH
1 bn for implementation of these
measures.
The reform proposes the creation
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of a network of outpatient districts,
which will include district clinics
or Primary Health Care Centers,
paramedical and obstetric points in
villages with a population of about
600-800 people.
H ealthcare W ill R eceive UAH
86 bn in 2018
Ukrainian government approved
the Draft Budget 2018. It envisages
the increase of healthcare budget
to UAH 86 bn (9.1% of the overall
budget and 2.6% of the GDP).
The budget 2018 will be aimed at
implementation of reforms. The
expenses on primary care will
increase by 36.9% y-o-y UAH 13.28
bn to provide the new principle of
payment to physicians. The funding
of Affordable Drugs reimbursement
program will be increased by 42.9%
to UAH 1 bn, as the reimbursement
list is expected to be expanded.
Financing of secondary, tertiary
and emergency medical care will
increase by 10.8% y-o-y to UAH
53.9 bn. The funds for public
procurements of medicines and
vaccines through international
organizations will amount to UAH
5.95 bn.
No.6327 and No.6604 are adopted,
the doctors will be charged in
accordance with the number of
patients who signed declarations
with them from August 1, 2018.
“The eHealth system would ensure
support to the introduction of the
money follows the patient principle
in primary care,” the Head of the
MOH Ulana Suprun said. “This
would allow financing medicine
more effectively, establishing fair
relations between doctors and
patients when doctors will receive
fair payment for their work and
the latter – high-quality healthcare
services”.
eHealth project in Ukraine is
implemented with the support of
the governments of Canada, the
United States, Germany and the
Global Fund.
e H ealth
S ystem is A vailable for
the R egistration of D octors &
P atients
Electronic healthcare system
eHealth was launched in test
mode and became available
for registration of doctors and
patients. The operation of the
system in the test mode, during
which the registration of doctors
will be carried out on a voluntary
basis, will last until Apr 1, 2018. At
the same time, if the Draft Laws
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