The absence of a decision about the sources of financing of specialized secondary and tertiary tier health care could draw disfavor from doctors, up to social fallout, Head of Subcommittee for medical education and science of the parliamentary committee for healthcare Kostiantyn Yarynych has said.
“Today we miraculously restrain the dissatisfaction of doctors. This is a big risk for the whole country. Someone can provoke doctors and pit against each other, because there may be a reason, as primary level physicians will already receive a normal income, while specialized and highly specialized medical care will not be. After all in order to pay normal salaries in hospitals, it is necessary to attract additional funding,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Yarynych said that “the financial guarantees prescribed in the law concern only a small number of services that the state can afford. The state cannot afford medical services of the secondary and tertiary level, but many people deliberately keep silent about it today.”
He also believes that the issue of financing specialized and highly specialized medical care (of secondary and tertiary level) should be resolved in the near future.
“Let’s say we get all new officials at all levels – new deputies and a new government – in 2020. There is a very big risk that the new government will say about the healthcare reform that this is not their idea and the reform will stop and if the changes at the secondary/tertiary level will stop, discontent will begin in the medical sector,” he said.
