Healthcare Commission approves cuts in healthcare program costs

Odesa City Council deputies, members of the Healthcare Commission, have agreed to amend the City Target Program "Health" for 2024-2026 for consideration by the City Council session.

According to Levon Nikoghosyan, Director of the Health Department, the amendments provide for a reduction and increase in budget expenditures in a number of areas.

For example, it is planned to increase expenditures on salaries, food and medicines for a number of municipal non-profit enterprises in Odesa - hospitals, the Reznik Center and the City Psychiatric Dispensary - as the amount of funding for these institutions from the National Health Service has decreased.

There are also plans to increase spending on the provision of free medicines, on providing adults and children with disabilities with technical equipment, and on providing patients with metastatic melanoma and triple-negative breast cancer with the drug Pembrolizumab. The planned expenditures for this purpose will be increased by UAH 9 million due to the increase in the number of patients with certain types of cancer.

It is also planned to create and equip a Hearing Center. Meanwhile, spending on food for servicemen treated in urban hospitals will be reduced by 15 million. According to Levon Nikoghosyan, this is due to the fact that in 2025 it is planned that the Military Clinical Medical Center of the Southern Region will pay for meals for the military in hospitals in accordance with the agreements concluded with hospitals. This is intended to improve the nutrition of the military in hospitals.

Expenditures on dental services for the military are also being reduced by UAH 2.3 million. The reason is that the city's dental clinic No. 3 has signed an agreement with the National Health Service, and now the state will pay for these services.

Кирило Бойко