(REGIONAL NEWS) According to the National Programme ‘Health’, Tatarstan Received Pharmaceuticals Amounting to over 583 Million Rubles (€16.2 million).
11:16 25.12.2007Within the frames of the priority national project ‘Health’, the combined delivery of pharmaceuticals and diagnostic facilities to the Republic of Tatarstan had amounted to 583,186,108.98 rubles (€16.2 million), as of 19 December, in accordance with the distribution plan of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development in Russia (Roszdrav).
This figure includes (i) diagnostic facilities to the amount of 67,966,756.11 rubles (€1.88 million), (ii) antiretroviral drugs amounting to 88,322,873.67 rubles (€2.45 million), (iii) medicines to treat viral hepatitis B and C to the amount of 426,896,479.2 rubles (€11.9 million).Within the frames of implementation of the priority national project ‘Health’, as of 19 December, health institutions of the Republic had received the deliveries of the diagnostic equipment of 169 items amounting to 220,441,966.53 rubles (€6.12 million).
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16:40 25.12.2007
(REGIONAL NEWS) The M.Vladimirski Moscow Region Clinical Institute for Research Studies held a collegium of the Moscow region Health Ministry, where the chairmen of the Coordinating Councils in medical districts and the heads of governmental health institutions in the Moscow region considered the issue ‘About pharmacological support for particular groups of people living in the Moscow region, who are entitled to receive the state social assistance in the form of social services, and about maintenance tasks for 2008’.
At present, in the region there are 379 therapeutic establishments, over 11,000 doctors and doctors’ assistants, 642 pharmaceutical institutions to implement the Additional Pharmacological Support (APS) programme. The Federal Foundation for Compulsory Medical Insurance has set the standard of expenditures on a person, who receives the state social assistance in the form of social services at the rate of 378.75 rubles (€10.5) per month. After this sum had been multiplied by the number of persons qualifying for entitlements on the federal list (372,141), 1.69 billion rubles (€47 million) was appropriated for financing the programme. This money turned out insufficient.
As Galina Shishkareva, Deputy Health Minister of the Region Government, reported, ‘The beginning of the year was marked by a rapid increase in social tension. For that matter, Moscow region Governor Boris Gromov decided to allocate 270 million rubles (€7.5 million) of the region budget to provide people qualifying for entitlements including oncologic patients’.
The regional Health Ministry issued an instruction, which authorized pharmaceutical institutions over February-May 2007 to release the pharmaceuticals that had been centrally purchased during previous time periods at the expense of the region budget, to persons qualifying for entitlements on the federal list, who suffer from socially significant diseases. As the result, they were given an assistance amounting to 22.6 million rubles (€627,000).
In the second half year, the federal authorities decided to increase the financing for the APS programme up to 2.7 billion rubles (€75 million). To make payments to the Moscow Region Foundation for Compulsory Medical Insurance (MOFOMS), the plenipotentiary pharmacological organizations made out invoices amounting to 2.2 billion rubles (€61 million). MOFOMS transferred 1.66 billion rubles (€46 million) to the accounts of the pharmacological organizations. The delivery of pharmaceuticals to regional pharmaceutical institutions to provide persons qualifying for entitlements on the federal list came up to 2.5 billion rubles (€70 million).
In accordance with Boris Gromov’s decision, there were 10 million rubles (€280,000) appropriated to purchase pharmaceuticals to provide for the prescriptions mentioned. So far, the Health Ministry and the Moscow region Governmental Unitarian Enterprise ‘Mosoblfarmatsia’ have purchased pharmaceuticals to the amount of 5.6 million rubles (€156,000).
In 2007, over 5 thousand complaints were submitted to the Health Ministry regarding provision of pharmaceuticals.
To implement the regional APS programme, the expenditures of 2.19 billion rubles (€61 million) have been provided in the region’s treasury in 2007. Out of this money, 1.02 billion rubles (€29 million) was appropriated for the regional APS programme. The pharmaceutical institutions received deliveries of pharmaceuticals and medical items amounting to 974.7 million rubles (€27 million).
Elena Dementieva
