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The Health Ministry hopes that the health care reform will be adopted in the fall and the ministry continues preparations for its implementation, Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun has said.

“We continue working with draft resolutions and orders that need to be adopted as bylaws on changes. We hope the reform will be voted for in September,” she told journalists in Kyiv on Friday.

Suprun said that providing bill No. 6327 is adopted in September, the Health Ministry will be able to meet the budget process and make the necessary proposals to the budget of 2018.

She said that starting from January 1, 2018, the primary level of medical care will be able to make money on the new financing principle “Money Follows the Patient.”

“Doctors and patients are being got ready to sign contracts. We have already filled in the registers of doctors and medical institutions. I think, a lot of work has to be done before January 1,” Suprun said.

As earlier reported, 227 Verkhovna Rada members on June 8 voted to adopt bill No. 6327 on state financial guarantees for medical services and medicines, but failed to pass bill No. 6329 on introducing changes to the Budget Code in the part on financing health care. Both pieces of legislation are part of Ukraine’s health reform.