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Ukraine’s Health Ministry expects that supplies of medicines and medical products procured using 2017 budget fund will begin in October.

Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun said at a press conference in Kyiv on July 27 that by late August medicines and medical products procured using the 2016 budget funds will be shipped in the full amount.

She also said that supplies of medicines procured using the 2017 budget funds will be delivered in smaller batches.

She said that this would allow providing for continuity of treatment.