Residents of the region can take advantage of the Government program "Affordable medicine"

1 April 2017, the Government launched the program "Affordable medicine". Patients will be able to cure cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, and bronchial asthma for free or with little fee. This was announced by the head of the health Department of the regional state administration Vladimir Bogaychuk. "As you can see, the reforms in health care continue. The purpose of the program "Affordable medicine" is to provide every citizen of Ukraine with medicines that will improve their quality of life and prevent complications and premature mortality. For any questions, please contact the government hotline 15-45. To implement this project for our region, the Government has allocated UAH 500 million. Ternopil region will receive 13 million. To get free meds, you need to contact the doctor and get the correct prescription. Then look into the pharmacy marked "Affordable drugs". There you can obtain medicines free of charge or with partial charge prescription. The cost of drugs fully or partially paid by the state", - said Vladimir Bogaychuk. He said that pharmacies voluntary conditions sign an agreement with local authorities and become participants in the program. A list of pharmacies subsequently on the website of the MINISTRY of health. The mechanism of compensation of cost of medicines (reimbursement) applies to cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and asthma. "The priority was given to treatment of these diseases, as they highly affect the rates of mortality or significantly reduce the patient's quality of life and effectively treated on an outpatient basis. Mortality from cardiovascular diseases accounts for 65% of the total mortality in Ukraine. According to the statistical data for 2015, with type II diabetes suffers one million people. It is 6 times greater than on type i diabetes (insulin dependent). Patients with bronchial asthma was 210 thousand, according to statistics of 2015. Basically, it is children and young people", - stated Vladimir Bogaychuk. This was reported in the Ternopil regional state administration

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Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/

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