The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recommends the President of Ukraine to establish and head the National Headquarters for Counteracting COVID-19 to organize a rapid response to the spread of coronavirus disease, to increase the capacity of the national health care system, to introduce a comprehensive system to protect the economy from the effects of the pandemic, to develop and implement an effective security strategy for Ukraine in the face of new global biological challenges.

The National Staff is recommended to take measures for prompt decisions to counter COVID-19, in particular, to immediately put into operation a single all-Ukrainian multi-channel telephone line – a state communication system for all citizens who have symptoms of coronavirus.

The main tasks of this hotline are to determine the reception and processing of appeals of citizens who have symptoms or coronavirus, to obtain information for the organization of emergency collection of biological materials by ambulance crews at home, coordination of tests for coronavirus, providing free medicines for outpatient treatment patients, medical consultations.

The resolution also recommends:

- to provide effective free diagnosis and testing for coronavirus (COVID-19);

- to create conditions for effective treatment of patients with coronavirus in an outpatient setting through the restoration of the system of emergency medical care at the local government level.

The resolution is aimed at ensuring the provision of timely and effective medical care to patients with COVID-19, and to:

- social protection of medical workers, as well as non-medical workers who are participants in the process of providing care to patients, by setting an additional surcharge of up to 300% of monthly salary;

- organization of providing social support to patients;

- sustainable functioning of the emergency medical care system;

- staffing the needs of the health care system in epidemiologists, hygienists and specialists in laboratory diagnostics;

- restoration of the system of anti-epidemic protection and development of the network of the infectious diseases hospitals;

- creation of Ukrainian production of diagnostic test systems, drugs and immunobiological medicines for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of coronavirus infection.

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