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Khmilnyk, Vinnytsia region, July 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) – National health insurance will be introduced in Ukraine in 2015-2016, after the reform of the healthcare system, Health Minister Oleksandr Anischenko has said.

"In 2012-2013, we are planning to adopt a law on mandatory health insurance, and in 2015-2016, it will start working, but on the basis of the reformed and revised healthcare system," he said at a meeting of the Health Ministry’s board in Khmilnyk in Vinnytsia region on Friday.

Anischenko noted that the Health Ministry had planned to launch the reform of the entire health system from 2014, and said that the ministry had already drafted a bill on mandatory national health insurance.

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.

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