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Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the medicines bought at with state funds will be sent only to medical establishments.

She said this at a briefing after a meeting with pharmaceutical producers and producers of medical equipments in Kyiv on Monday.

"We will send all these medicines only to hospitals, not to drugstores, as the state is not able to provide all private drugstores with medicines. We're doing this so that people can go to doctors for first aid," she said.

The prime minister also noted that supplies of Tamiflu for the prevention and treatment of swine flu have been already distributed and sent to the regions.

"We will strictly control the delivery of this medicine to hospitals" she said.

The prime minister also said that the state had obtained 7.5 million meters of gauze for gauze masks to prevent the spread of theА/Н1N1 virus and other strains of flu.

According to Tymoshenko, a total of 350 million masks could be made from this gauze.