The Health Ministry of Ukraine has paid for transplant surgeries that will be held in 2020, reads a statement on the ministry’s website.
According to the statement, the ministry transferred the payments to ten participants of the pilot project for organ transplantation whose applications were approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 18, 2019.
The money was allocated from the national budget for 2019. As soon as the first tranche is spent, another one will be transferred from the national budget for 2020.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers extended the pilot project for organ transplantation for 2020.
All medical institutions that have a license to provide organ transplantation services were included in the list of participants in the pilot project.
In addition, the government approved the tariffs for transplantation of organs and other anatomic materials: kidney allotransplantation (from living or deceased donor) will cost UAH 323,798; ABO incompatible kidney allotransplantation – UAH 721,230; heart or heart-lung transplant – UAH 535,280; full-size or partial liver transplant – UAH 855,039; donor nephrectomy – UAH 33,561; donor liver resection – UAH 116,130; organ recovery from deceased donor – UAH 74,086; donor tissue matching (antigen testing via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method) – UAH 18,630; allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant, including cell recovery stage – UAH 1.36 million; autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant, including cell recovery stage – UAH 1.308 million.
The government also allowed using the funds to pay for hematopoietic stem cell transplant from abroad, as well as making prepayments for transplant services and use the funds remaining from 2019 in 2020.
