Almost 18.9 million persons signed declarations with family doctors in the primary healthcare reform, Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Kovtonyuk has said. Speaking at the seminar entitled “The First Results of Healthcare Reform: the Experience of the Regions” at the Public Health international exhibition in Kyiv, he reported, referring to the data of the National Health Service of Ukraine that at present, about 45% of Ukrainians are registered with family doctors. At the same time, Kovtonyuk said that “Kyiv is an almost complete outsider in the number of declarations” – 1.149 million declarations were signed in Kyiv, which is below the national average.
At the same time, in the leading cities of the reform declarations were signed by up to 73% of the population, in particular, in Chervonohrad (Lviv region). In Ovruch (Zhytomyr region) declarations were signed by 68% of residents, Vinnytsia and Pokrovsk (Donetsk region) – 65% each, Novohrad-Volynsky (Zhytomyr region) – 63%, Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Pervomaisk (Mykoklaiv region) – 61% each.
The primary healthcare institutions which have switched to a new mechanism for financing services after the first stage of signing agreements with the National Health Service of Ukraine received UAH 819.8 million in July-September 2018. In particular, UAH 266.8 million was sent to 30 healthcare institutions of Kyiv. Kovtonyuk said that residents of rural areas more active in signing declaration with family doctors compared with urban residents.
