Contents tagged with Health Care
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Ukrainian President signs medical reform
During a working trip to the Odessa region, President Petro Poroshenko signed two bills to launch medical reform: one on improving the accessibility and quality of medical care in rural areas, and a second on government financial guarantees for the provision of medical services and medicines.
At the same time, he stressed that the decision on the bill on state guarantees was not easy for him.
"For me as president, this decision is not easy. But nevertheless, I decided to sign it. And in …
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Prosecutor General of Ukraine: Yanukovych’s money should be publicly shared and given to healthcare reform
The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said on Channel 5 TV that the “Yanukovych money” that was confiscated and added to the state budget should be shared with the public and that it should go to healthcare reform in particular.
“The state treasury got USD 1.1 billion and another USD 200 million in securities. The question is why politicians from the government do not share this money in the budget now. I publicly insist that these funds should be allocated in the budget for …
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Russian Ministry of Health described the HIV situation in the country as serious
The HIV/AIDS situation in Russia is extremely serious, with more than 800,000 HIV-positive people living in the country, reported the top HIV specialist from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Voronin, to Rosbalt.“The number of drug users has begun to decrease, but at the same time people are increasingly infected by sexual contact. Now, those people make up about 40 percent [of people infected with HIV]. That is why everyone should understand that people must undergo HIV/ …
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New policy poses challenges for foreign drug companies in Russia
A new policy by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Industry and Trade will pose challenges for foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers this year. New rules will make it necessary to receive a Russian variant of a certificate of conformity of quality if they wish to do business in the country.
The chief representative of Pfizer in Russia told Business FM that there isn’t enough time or resources to check drugs under the new policy while still working within budget and schedule constraints. This …