The Resolution No. 4042 “On Taking Urgent Measures Aimed at Ensuring Appropriate Prevention, Diagnostics and Treatment of Diabetic Children”:
- entrusts the Cabinet of Ministers with considering the issue of creation and support for the functioning of a system of prevention and diagnosis of diabetes in children;
- inclusion of screening for diabetes in the annual professional medical examination of children; providing healthcare institutions performing such examinations with instruments for blood collection and measurement of blood sugar at the expense of the State Budget;
- introduction of international standards of provision of diabetic children with medical assistance;
- improving the procedure for provision of medications, permanent blood sugar control devices and expendable materials for the sick children at the expense of the Budget. The resolution provides for the financing of the above measures.