The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the strategy of development of the national blood system for the period up to 2022 with a subsequent finalization at a meeting on Feb. 20.
The strategy provides for the reorganization of the blood system at three levels: national, regional, and hospital. The reorganization at the national level foresees the establishment of a transfusion center performing the functions of blood system management and monitoring, at the regional level – the creation of 11 blood centers, which will procure, test, process, store and distribute donor blood and its components, and at the hospital level – the creation of 385 hospital blood banks within health care institutions.
To develop this strategy, the Ministry of Health created the coordinating working group of experts, which carried out calculations in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
According to the press service of the ministry, new financing and management mechanisms that comply with the general principles for transforming the entire health care system, including security, accessibility, accountability, innovation and financial efficiency, will be launched by 2022.
