Press office of the CMU: Media spread misinformation on reduction of expenditures to treat children with cancer
The information that the
draft state budget 2014 provides catastrophic spending cuts for the treatment
of children with cancer, which was shown on January 15 this year in the evening
program "Facty" on the ICTV, is false and
provocation .
The so-called acting chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the National Children's
You know, as chief
doctor of "Okhmatdyt" Yuriy
Gladush said, the Board of Trustees is a public
organization with a lot of members who talk to themselves and do not express
the official point of view of the hospital. However, as you know, Hanna Hopko is an activist of the "Public sector of "EuroMaidan" – the organization that has been repeatedly
accused of disseminating misinformation.
Secondly, why Hanna Hopko kept silent in 2009, when the Government has
allocated UAH 39.7 million to children with cancer in 10 times less than in
2013? For comparison, in 2010 for this purpose directed immediately was allocated
twice as much – UAH 77.5 mln., UAH 89.6 million in 2012 and UAH 365.8 million in 2013.
Any reduction in
funding for health care for children with cancer will not be in 2014. Moreover,
by the end of this year will be put into operation modern medical-diagnostic complex
of "Okhmatdyt", where the center of a bone
marrow transplant and oncology department will operate.
In general, UAH 61.3
billion are provided in the draft Law of
The increase of the general
funding of the Ministry of Interior, on which Hanna Hopko
referred, is not due to the new needs of police, but due to the inclusion into
the MIA of the State Border Service, which spending in 2013 amounted to 2.5
billion.
Distortion of the facts
is nothing but a deliberate attempt to spread lies and an attempt to misinform society,
so we require TV-channel ICTV to apologize for spreading misinformation and refute
the misinformation with actual data of the state budget in 2014.