The Verkhovna Rada, in its first reading, supported a bill that provides for changes to the 2025 state budget and an increase in funding for centralized procurement of medicines by 3.1 billion hryvnia.
According to the head of the parliamentary committee on health, medical care, and medical insurance, Mykhailo Radutsky, on Telegram, the additional funds are needed to purchase medicines for people with orphan diseases, viral hepatitis, HIV infection, tuberculosis, cancer, and other critical conditions.
Earlier it was reported that on July 1, the government supported a proposal to increase funding for the purchase of medicines from the state budget by UAH 3.1 billion, which is 36% of the additional need, while at the end of May, deputies registered in the Verkhovna Rada draft law No. 13308, which provides for the possibility of allocating additional funds for centralized medical purchases in the amount of UAH 8.624 billion from the reserve fund.
In total, the 2025 state budget provides for the allocation of UAH 11.8 billion for the purchase of medicines, while the Ministry of Health estimates that the need is UAH 19.8 billion. Thus, the planned funding covers only 59.4% of the need.
If funding is increased by UAH 3.1 billion, the need will be covered by 75%.
