Health Ministry names universal healthcare program as most successful
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Accessible healthcare, village doctors, Hepatitis C Program, maternal and child health, infrastructural projects are among most important achievements of the Health Ministry in the last two years according to the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs David Sergeenko.
Yesterday, Sergeenko presented the-two year report of his Ministry and outlined the Universal Healthcare Program as the most successful project.
The Minister noted that throughout last two years, 2,882,238 people were registered in the Primary Healthcare Centers and 822,413 received free treatment.
Sergeenko also said that from May 2014, funding of village doctors and nurses increased by 30 percent. In addition, they were given essential medicine and drugs for emergency ambulance service and medical documentations.
He also talked about the Hepatitis C program, within which beneficiaries were able to purchase disease drugs with a 60% discount from Government.
Overall the two-year report covered 20 projects that the Ministry implemented in all three directions (labour, health and social affairs).
David Sergeenko also spoke about the plans of the Ministry for the year 2015.
He noted that next year the counting system for socially vulnerable families would change, pensions would increase, construction of several medical centers in regions would be completed and three medical institutions in Tbilisi would be reconstructed.
In addition, the Ministry planned to start a new program, which would eliminate the Hepatitis C disease in Georgia.
Almost half a million of the country’s most deserving people are being offered additional help in the Government-led health insurance program.
Georgia is stepping up its fight against the infectious disease hepatitis C with new medicine soon to enter the local market.
Two million GEL will be injected into the Georgian healthcare system to prevent unnecessary deaths and raise the standard of healthcare in Georgia’s rural areas.
More than 1,000 prisoners with hepatitis C will receive free treatment in the next two years, the Ministry of Health announced today. In addition, the same medicine will be subsidized by 60% for the greater Georgian population.
Georgia is preparing to sign a trilateral agreement that will allow a new medicine to be introduced to the market, which aimed to completely eradicate the infectious disease in Georgia.
In about five years from now, Georgia will be a Hepatitis C-free country thanks to a unique treatment program which was introduced today.
Georgian citizens have better access to healthcare services than in previous years, said an emphatic Georgian Prime Minister while summing up the progress and achievements of the country’s healthcare system.
Georgia has announced a new major reform to modernise the country’s health system.
The current Government of Georgia is pledging to take responsibility to fund the treatment of Aids, tuberculosis and malaria for all sufferers in Georgia.
Georgia’s Minister of Health David Sergeenko stated today that his body planned to introduce strict control both on imported and local medicines from the year.
The Government of Georgia will provide free vitamins and minerals for thousands of socially vulnerable babies to ensure they have a healthy start at life.
For the first time in Georgia’s history bone marrow transplants can now be performed in the country meaning hundreds of cancer patients will no longer have to travel abroad for life-saving surgery.
One of Georgia's most successful Government-led initiatives, the Universal Healthcare Program, will continue operating to benefit thousands more people living in the country.
Georgia’s universal healthcare program will offer improved services and medical support to its beneficiaries, Georgian Minister of Health Davit Sergeenko said today.
Approximately 180 military servicemen will be provided with apartments in Gori by the end of the year, Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze said at a briefing today.
Patients within the primary healthcare will get innovative medicine services through telemedicine equipment (artificial intelligence) starting next year, the Georgian Health Ministry states.
Fifty-six small clinics which have provided medical services for about 90,000 people in total will no longer be involved in the state healthcare programme, deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia says. Each of the 56 clinics had less than 7,000 beneficiaries. Only medical facilities which have 7,000 and more beneficiaries and whose locations are ‘critically important’ will be included.