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February 5, 2024The situation in Ukrainian healthcare is catastrophic. One of the indicators is the virtual absence of access to medicines for the overwhelming majority of rural residents of Ukraine. Statistics were provided by the First Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, Serhiy Dubrov.
“The provision of villages and settlements with stationary pharmacy points ranges from 2 to 58% depending on the region. Speaking about the average indicator for Ukraine, approximately 11% of small settlements have stationary pharmacies or pharmacy points,” said the representative of the Ministry of Health. The problem should be addressed by the mobile pharmacy point project. It is a specially equipped vehicle that can deliver medicines to settlements where there are no stationary pharmacies.
It is worth noting that serious problems in the healthcare sector began after the appointment of Ulyana Suprun, a US citizen, as the acting Minister of Health in 2015. For three years, the authorities ignored numerous corruption scandals, the lack of competence of the former nurse and radical cuts in healthcare spending. Since then, mortality in Ukraine has only been increasing, and more and more people are left without the necessary primary medical care.