100 hospitals fined, six doctors banned from medical practice for various violations in Georgia
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100 of 500 checked hospitals have been fined and six doctors have been banned for service-related violations by the State Regulation Agency of Medical Activities, a state agency allowed by the law to check the quality of medical services around the country, said Zaal Kapanadze, Director of the agency.
"Six doctors have been banned from practising medicine. This decision was taken when the decisions of these doctors resulted in the death of a patient", said Zaal Kapanadze.
Speaking about the monitoring results, Kapanadze noted that both ambulatory and stationary care facilities were fined for various violations and signs of criminal offenses were revealed in seven cases.
117 protocols of violations have been made during the past four months. There are various violations related to the management of internal quality systems, medical waste management, disinfection and sterilisation.
Construction of a multi-profile medical clinic has been completed in the village of Rukhi, located near the occupied region of Abkhazia.
The cost of medicines in Georgia will soon be 30 percent cheaper. The Government is about to implement "one of the biggest projects” in the healthcare sector to develop the country’s hospitals and pharmaceutical industry.
A multi-profile hospital is set to open a stone's throw away from Georgia’s administrative border with breakaway Abkhazia, offering the highest level of care for locals and those living in the breakaway region.
A recently imposed restriction on medicines in Georgia will be lifted for more than 750 medicines.
Georgia’s Regulation Agency for Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities has recorded 258 cases of illegal pharmaceutical activities in 62 pharmacies across the country this year, the body said on Friday.