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Really sick Political agendas once again outstripped the nation’s need for strategy and reassurance in the time of panic over swine flu pandemic.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:27 | Editorial
Bad medicine Price caps on prices for medication should be canceled. The pharmaceutical industry should be kept in check with more careful regulations.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:24 | Editorial
Prevention missing in health-care remedies Doctor Victor Yatsyk says Ukrainian medicine should make more emphasis on prevention.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:22 | Victor Yatsyk
Flu panic stoked by political malpractice Celebrity doctor Yevhen Komarovsky talks about prevention and treatment of viral infection, and gives a thorough analysis of how political incompetence and ensuing panic harms the nation.
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:12 | Yevhen Komarovsky
Vox Populi with Kateryna Grushenko What do you think of the way government authorities are reacting to the flu epidemic?
Nov 5, 2009 at 21:07 | Kateryna Grushenko
Ivan Katchanovski writes: In addition to an unwarranted credit for saving Ukraine from the disease, the flu scare creates additional opportunities for personal appropriation of large-scale emergency funding by government officials. Corruption reached epidemic proportions in Ukraine. Read the letter here.
Nov 5, 2009 at 11:43
Jamestown Foundation: Electoral populism in Ukraine prevails over economic wisdom Pavel Korduban writes:Electoral populism clearly prevails over economic wisdom in Ukraine ahead of the presidential election. Consequently, the IMF faces a difficult choice. If Ukraine does not receive the loan tranche expected in the middle of November, its national currency, which lost some 40 percent of its value in late 2008 and early 2009, will again fall making economic recovery slower and more painful. If the IMF turns a blind eye to Kyiv’s failure to abide by its conditions, the IMF’s prestige will suffer and Ukraine’s finances will be further unbalanced prompting it to seek additional international loans, including from the IMF. Read the story here.
Nov 5, 2009 at 07:41