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Viktoria Makarenko

Editor-in-chief of the website "Mr. Blister". Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. Author of several thousand articles and interviews for the pharmaceutical and medical community.

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Alexei Yaremenko

Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Health Oleksiy Yaremenko: “The second stage of medical reform will begin on January 1, 2023”

– The Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill No. 6306, which means that the medical reform has been continued. What changes await the medical industry at the second stage of medical reform, given that there is a war in the country? Is it realistic to implement everything planned now? Last month, the Verkhovna Rada passed a […]

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Night shift at the pharmacy

How will pharmacists work until the end of martial law? (Spoiler – we figured out when and for what they can be fired)

In spring, the Law of Ukraine on the organization of labor relations under martial law came into effect, defining new rules of work during the war. Given the fact that on August 23 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the extension of martial law in the country for 90 days, it will take quite a […]

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Lithuanian medical team

Traumatologists, resuscitators and nurses from Lithuania came to Ukraine

Two medical teams from Lithuania came to Ukraine: four doctors (traumatologists, resuscitators) and eight nurses each. In total – 24 people. According to Health Minister Viktor Lyashko, in the first days after the war started, some Ukrainian medical workers left for western regions or abroad, but the overwhelming majority of surgical and trauma teams continued […]

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Volunteer assistance

Delta Medical’s Business Unit Manager manufactures balaclavas and offloads

Yulia, a business unit manager, volunteered with her husband for 10 days in the Kiev subway feeding people. But when it became dangerous near their home in the Lukyanivka neighborhood, they left for Western Ukraine. When they arrived, they started to ask about the needs of people and realized that they lacked balaclavas, unloads and […]

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The company “Darnitsa” received the right to produce the drug for the treatment of COVID-19

Thus, the Ukrainian pharmaceutical company can produce and supply the above-mentioned drugs to 95 low- and middle-income countries of the world, in particular to Ukraine. Oral treatment developed by Pfizer is intended primarily for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 of mild to moderate severity who have a high risk of complications. It is used […]

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White phosphorus

White phosphorus burns. How to help victims and what not to do

The 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention for the Protection of War Victims (1949), as well as Protocol III to the “Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons” (1980), are considered the basic instrument for banning phosphorus munitions How does it work? There are several types of weapons, the main part of which is white phosphorus, […]

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From April 1, only pharmacists registered with eHealth will be able to sell antibiotics

As we wrote, starting from April 1, 2022, all antibiotics registered in Ukraine will be dispensed in pharmacies only if the patient has an electronic prescription. All antibacterial drugs will be prescribed exclusively by doctors, who will write patients an electronic prescription. It should be emphasized that the e-prescription will note the active substance (and […]

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Boruchowski Bogdan

Viktor Lyashko has another new deputy. What is known about the official?

So, the new Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko became Borukhovskyy Bohdan Valentynovych. This was announced by the government representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, in Telegram. According to Melnychuk, in a parallel decision, the government dismissed Borukhovskyy from the post of first deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources, which he previously […]

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Officials

A pilot project on pharmaceutical insurance starts

According to MoH estimates, Ukrainians annually spend about 60 billion UAH on medicines, and more than 50% of them come from medicines without proven efficacy and unjustified prescriptions. There are drugs that are not included in the “Affordable Drugs” program and their cost is not reimbursed under the reimbursement program. Voluntary pharmaceutical insurance will provide […]

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