PM: Gov’t to use $185m to raise monthly assistance for 223,000 children
PM Garibashvili said the Government had allocated ₾465 million ($185.65mln) to raise monthly assistance to socially vulnerable children to ₾200 ($79.85) this year. Photo: PM's press office
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said the Government had allocated ₾465 million ($185.65mln) to raise monthly assistance to socially vulnerable children to ₾200 ($79.85) this year.
The initiative involves 223,000 children beneficiaries, with the support package to be raised from the current ₾150 ($59.89) starting July 1.
He said his Government had financed 11 million medical cases for more than three million beneficiaries since coming to power in 2012, contrasting the former Government’s budget of ₾145 million ($57.89mln) to ₾7 billion ($2.79bln) spent over the past decade in the direction.
“Too many were unable to receive treatment and undergo emergency surgery. Many ended with lethal results. This was the situation [before 2012]”, he said in comments, before also mentioning recent launches of Government-initiated infrastructure projects for children’s needs.
The Georgian Government will finance treatment for 300 children cancer patients in the country in the “best clinics” around the world in a ₾30 million ($12mln) annual programme, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
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Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said the public employment programme for the country’s socially vulnerable individuals had given jobs to about 30,000 people since March.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said the complication with ensuring access to Voxzogo (vosoritide), an experimental drug for treating achondroplasia, for children in the country was its potential side effects and not funding from his Government.
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Georgian Prime MInister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday said ensuring care for children was among his Government’s “top priorities”, in comments on International Day for Protection of Children. Garibashvili extended his message for “peace, health, prosperity and progress to every child in our country” on the date, and said ensuring equal access to healthcare and education for all children was “vitally important”.
Georgian Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze on Thursday hosted children of servicemembers killed in conflicts for the country’s territorial integrity, international peacekeeping missions and in other official duties, in a move marking International Children’s Day.
The Georgian Ministry of Health will fully finance liver transplantation surgeries, increasing the state support from partial coverage, the Georgian Government Administration announced on Monday. In addition, liver, heart or kidney transplantations are now used to classify patients as having “significant disability”, in a change that came into force in January.
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