December 2014

24/12/2014

Health Care Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recommended increasing the amount of expenditures for the drugs procurement from 3.2 to 6.8 billion. UAH

Today during the meeting of the Health Care Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine it was decided to recommend increasing the amount of expenditures for the drugs procurement to […]
23/12/2014

Budget 2015 may kill Ukrainian patients

More than half of patients with HIV/AIDS, cancer, hemophilia, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, diabetes and other diseases that receive treatment from the State will be left without treatment in 2015.  The […]
15/12/2014

12 new members representing severe diseases have been admitted to the CF “Patients of Ukraine”

On December 11, during the Annual General Meeting of the Charitable Foundation “Patients of Ukraine”, 12 new members representing a variety of serious diseases, including hemophilia, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, children’s […]
12/12/2014

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the proposals of the Ukrainian Healthcare Reform Strategy

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Action Program of the Cabinet of Ministers. The adopted Action Program includes the proposals of the Ukrainian Healthcare Reform Strategy, which have been […]
08/12/2014

The new Minister Alexander Kvitashvili started the discussion of the draft reform of the Ukrainian health care system

With the participation of the new Health Minister the discussion of the draft strategy of the Ukrainian healthcare system reform has started. According to the authors of the project the […]
03/12/2014

Scandalous ALPHAPEG drug has been banned in Ukraine

Scandalous drug for pseudo-treatment of hepatitis — ALPHAPEG (peginterferon alfa-2b) manufactured by Valartin Pharma LLC has been banned in Ukraine. Public Enterprise “The State Expert Center” has ordered to deregister […]
02/12/2014

Activists demand not to allow a corruptionist to become the Minister of Health

Today, the activists of anticorruption and patients’ organizations picketed the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the only one demand – the Coalition deputies must not vote for the candidate Vasyl […]
01/12/2014

The Ministry of Health has “cashed in” UAH 26 mln on HIV-positive in 2014

On December 1, World AIDS Day, public activists released information that the state has overpaid UAH 26 million on procurement of drugs for HIV-infected in 2014, despite the act that […]