The reformation of the secondary and tertiary healthcare systems should continue without obstacles, then the reform would be comprehensive, according to the European Business Association (EBA).
“We believe that the initiated directions of reforming the healthcare sector should continue. First of all, it concerns the reform of the financing of medicine. Stopping it would be a halfway stop. Further, it is necessary to continue the reform at the secondary and tertiary levels of medicine unhindered to achieve an integrated systemic reform,” Executive Director of the EBA Health Care Committee Natalia Serhienko told Interfax-Ukraine.
She also said that the transfer in 2015 the procurement of medicines under national programs at the expense of the national budget to specialized international organizations was the beginning of an effective fight against corruption.
“At the same time, it was a temporary and forced measure: a large-scale transformation of the national procurement system was launched at the same time. This process cannot be overestimated, and its support would, in fact, be a confirmation that there is no return to the past,” she said.
The head of the EBA Health Care Committee recalled that “there remains a little less than a year to complete the reform and transfer part of the procurement back to the reformed national procurement agency – SOE Medicine Procurement of Ukraine, which by the end of 2019 should be fully operational.”
