The main goal of the changes is to guarantee access to medicinal products and medical devices for all healthcare institutions, regardless of their organizational and legal form.
As stated in the justification for the project, a procedure was previously established for compiling and criteria for including and excluding medicines and medical devices in this special list, temporarily allowed for import and medical use without registration.
The procedure for compiling the list is carried out by a commission that makes decisions based on certain criteria. The inclusion of medicines and devices in the list occurs based on applications submitted by state institutions through the electronic document management system.
The classification of healthcare organizations includes:
- state institutions established by authorized bodies in the field of health;
- state medical organizations founded by other state bodies;
- municipal institutions created by local authorities;
- private medical organizations.
“The rights of citizens to health protection and access to medical care should not depend on the ownership form of the healthcare institution. [Current] access to temporarily allowed medicines and medical devices creates inequality among patients. In the republic, there are cases where patients start treatment in one clinic and continue or complete it in another. Restricting access to such medicines disrupts the continuity of therapy, especially in the treatment of rare diseases or oncology,” emphasize the authors of the amendments.
In this regard, it is proposed to amend the procedure for compiling and the criteria for including and excluding medicines in the special list by replacing the phrase “state healthcare organizations” with “healthcare organizations regardless of ownership forms.”
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