Our hospitals are facing radical changes – starting from the beginning of 2018, they are obliged to provide patients with medicines, and not just on paper. Moreover, those must be essential drugs with proven efficacy.
The list of these drugs was drawn up by the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, based on the WHO model list and recent scientific data (this model has already been used by 156 of the 196 countries of the world).
The new model for the release of drugs was supposed to be introduced back on September 27, but the Cabinet, at the request of the Ministry of Health, postponed the start to January 1, 2018: the administrations of medical institutions were given an opportunity to form their lists and conduct procurements. You can read the full list on the site of the Ministry of Health.
From now on, if you end up in a hospital bed and you are given a long list of everything you need to bring from the pharmacy, you have every right to ask why the medicines are not offered for free or why the doctor prescribes the medicines which are not in the current list.
The list itself, by the way, will be amended before 2019, until the list corresponds to demands of time that will become the basis for public procurements. And subsequently it will be reviewed annually.
The MOH officially admits: drugs, that have been procured by the state all these years, do not meet the needs of patients. This is stated in a special appeal on the website of the Ministry.
Thus, 86% of patients in 2016 bought medicines at their own expense (data of the USAID / SIAPS Ukraine), despite the fact that at the same time, the state spends billions of hryvnias annually for the purchase of drugs that are not needed by anyone. The situation has become absurd: the taxpayers’ money is wasted, while 69% of the citizens buy there own medicines, and 43% of the hospitalized even have to sell their property or borrow money to cover the cost of treatment.
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