Reference pricing will be introduced in Ukraine from April 1, along with the introduction of the medicine reimbursement program. The decision was made at a government meeting. “After analyzing the preparatory work to introduce regulation, holding consultations with manufacturers and market players, it was determined the proper execution of the regulation required a longer transitive…
The government of Japan in 2017 intends to allocate about $290,000 on projects of donor organizations in the sphere of medicine and health education in Ukraine. “We are happy to sign these five project proposals, four of which involve medicine, and one health education. It is very important for Ukraine,” Japan’s ambassador to Ukraine Shigeki…
Azerbaijan is holding negotiations to create pharmaceutical plants jointly with Turkish and Ukrainian companies, Shahin Mustafayev, Azerbaijani economy minister and chairman of the country’s Tariff (price) Council, said. Mustafayev noted that currently those Turkish and Ukrainian companies were preparing business plans and documents on technical justification of their projects. “Meanwhile, work is being carried out…
Healthcare costs have increased by 397 million euros at current prices over the 2009-2015 period, 98 million euros of which fell into 2015, according to the National Institute for Health Development’s (TAI) newly-pubished analysis “Estonian healthcare costs 2015”. In 2015 state health insurance, i.e. the Estonian Healthcare Insurance Fund (EHIF), accounted for 64.8%, household co-financing…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has allowed the sale of ending stocks of medicines eligible to reimbursement. They were delivered to pharmacy chains at the wholesale prices exceeding the upper limit set in Ukrainian law before February 1, 2017. Presenting the draft document acting Health Minister of Ukraine Ulana Suprun said that the resolution would help…
Ukraine’s Health Ministry has published a draft resolution amending government resolution No. 333 dated March 25, 2009 that would approve of the new national list of key medicines. The document was posted on the ministry’s website on December 27. According to it, the list includes high-quality effective and safe medicines, taking into account the sickness…
Foundation of the Azerbaijan-Iran joint pharmaceutical plant in the Pirallahi Industrial Park will be laid in January 2017, Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said. Iran’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei will take part in the groundbreaking ceremony of the plant which is an Azerbaijan-Iran joint enterprise, Mustafayev said. Over $30 million…