The Committee on Public Health supports the Draft Resolution on setting up an Interim Inquiry Panel of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to investigate the Facts, Reasons and Consequences of the Situation in the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine regarding Government Order for Special Food and Medicine for Children with Phenylketonuria
Published on 10 September 2010, at 13:07
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The Committee members call for
setting up an Interim Inquiry Panel, as the children with phenylketonuria
(a serious hereditary disease damaging the nervous system) require
state support. On the average, 50 children with phenylketonuria
are annually born in Ukraine.
These children need special food, which is not produced in Ukraine, and, therefore, is
expensive. The state took the responsibility for providing the children with phenylketonuria with special food, the authors of the
resolution stated.
The People´s Deputies stressed that the reports
of the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine failed to adequately cover the situation
with the government purchase of special food. The panel should present the
report at the plenary meeting of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine within three months since
the adoption of the draft resolution (Reg. No. 6699).