Tbilisi City Hall to finance beneficiaries of breast cancer treatment programme from January
The Mayor also said between ₾21,600 ($8,045) and up to ₾61,150 ($22,776) was being spent annually per patient in early stages of breast cancer, with between ₾40,500 ($15,085) and ₾65,340 ($24,337) financed for those with metastatic forms of cancer. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall
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Tbilisi City Hall will finance beneficiaries of the breast cancer treatment programme from January, Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze announced on Wednesday.
Kaladze said the decision would “significantly ease the financial burden” of patients and their families, and noted the expensive medical drugs would be financed by 100 percent for “all beneficiaries” of the programme.
He added previously only 80 percent, and occasionally 50 percent, of services provided by the programme were financed for those without socially vulnerable status by the Municipal Department of Healthcare and Social Services.
The Mayor also said between ₾21,600 ($8,045) and up to ₾61,150 ($22,776) was being spent annually per patient in early stages of breast cancer, with between ₾40,500 ($15,085) and ₾65,340 ($24,337) financed for those with metastatic forms of cancer.
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