Pharmacies contracted by the National Health Service of Ukraine continue to work under the Affordable Medicines reimbursement program even under conditions of temporary occupation.
“The Affordable Medicine program works both in the occupied territories and where hostilities continue. For example, since February 24, pharmacies in the Kharkiv region have paid off more than 160,000 prescriptions for “affordable medicines,” more than 45,000 people have received drugs. The region’s pharmacies continued to provide people with insulin-dependent diabetes with the reimbursement program – 6940 people received life-saving drugs,” she said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to Husak, in the Donetsk region, 5,816 Ukrainians received drugs under the Affordable Medicines program, and 2,526 people received insulins.
At the same time, she noted that many pharmacies in the occupation cannot enter data into the electronic health system (EPS), therefore they also accept paper prescriptions.
The head of the NSZU emphasized that the ESZ and the dynamics of issuing and paying off prescriptions reflect the processes of migration – how people return home to the completely de-occupied Kyiv region, Chernihiv and Sumy.
“Starting from May, there was an increase in the number of issued and canceled prescriptions, and in June-July – a resumption of the pre-war period,” she said.
