The new official in charge of health protection in the Transnistrian region Andrei Guranda, who earlier headed the Mother and Child Center in Bender town, underlined the necessity of returning to accessible medicine for everyone. “Medicine in general should be evidently state-funded, but so far we have witnessed the replacement of free medicine with services for money,” the official stated on TSV channel, referring to the fact that the hospitalized persons have to bring medicines bought with their own money.
The new chief doctor of Transnistria considers the improvement of ambulatory services in all the towns and districts in the Transnistrian region is a key task. Among other initiatives are to annul the payments for hospitalized persons for each day in the hospital and to provide free computerized tomographic examinations at the central hospital, if the person is treated at one of the sections of this health facility.
However, Andrei Guranda noted that no revolutions will be witnessed as medicine is a conservative sector and the accumulated problems cannot be solved immediately. Mandatory cancer programs and tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS prophylaxis and treatment programs that are supported by international health organizations will continue to exist.
In the near future, all the reforms and innovations will be presented in the form of a roadmap for developing healthcare, which will be submitted to the local administration for approval.
