The Ukrainian government has set value of some types of insurance licenses at Hr 12,500, reads a posting on the government's Web site.
The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 802 of July 27, 2011 on amendments to cabinet resolution No. 286 of April 13, 2005.
The value applies to 61 types of voluntary insurance, life insurance, aircraft insurance, insurance of responsibility of aircraft owners (including responsibility of carriers), water transport insurance (domestic sea voyages and other types of water transport), insurance of responsibility of water transport owners (including responsibility of carriers), insurance of responsibility to third parties, insurance of credits (including responsibility of borrowers for non-payment of credits), insurance of financial risks and insurance of issued guarantees and accepted guarantees.
On July 15, Health Minister Oleksandr Anischenko has said the reform of the healthcare system in Ukraine will start in 2014.
The minister noted that parliament recently adopted a bill on pilot projects for healthcare system reform in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Kyiv.
The law regulates the appointment of the heads of state, municipal healthcare establishments through the signing of a relevant contract with them.
According to the law, medical aid is free of charge.
It is provided using budget funds by healthcare establishments and doctors that carry out economic activity on medical practice as individuals-entrepreneurs with whom agreements on the service of rendering free aid were signed.
The law classifies medical aid as emergency, first, secondary, specialized, tertiary, and highly specialized.
Earlier President Viktor Yanukovych has said that healthcare reform is a priority in public policy, and added that the state will always seek to protect maternity and childhood.
On May 24 Yanukovych has appointed Oleksandr Anischenko as Ukraine’s new health minister.
