02 April 2010, 13:38
In the course of the Committee sitting it was declared that the Bill (Reg. No4744) envisages the optimization of the heath protection establishments, defines the priorities of the primary medical care on the family medicine basis and its correlation with the secondary and tertiary medical care. It also specifies the competence spheres in the health protection field of the different state power branches and local self-government bodies. The document also specifies the rights and obligations of separate population groups, medical and pharmaceutical specialists.
Moreover, it was declared during the Committee sitting that the bill suggests defining of the basic principles of development of voluntary medical insurance and allotment of the fee-paid medical services as an extra source of health protection sphere financing and also implementation of certain organized changes in the health protection sphere.
The Committee members are convinced that division of the financing guarantees of the state regarding the free-of-charge medical services between the budget and insurance funds enables to concentrate the budget financing on the strategy essential issues of the health protection sphere.