Geneva dimensions: Ukraine and Lithuania are sisters and associates

First of all, Oleh Musiy thanked Lithuania, the Ministry of Health of Lithuania in person of his Lithuanian counterpart for the sincere attitude to Ukrainian people, true humanism, crystal civil position. As Lithuania was the first to receive first patients from Maidan.

He shared with his Lithuanian colleagues principal plans how to develop a new European healthcare system in Ukraine which will base on three pillars: reducing state involvement and decentralizing of administrating the system through expert self-government; changes in system of financing through providing broader independency with regards to distribution of healthcare budgets by means of compulsory state medical insurance and reimbursement of medicine; fundamental qualitative changes in the system of training of medical staff. If within nearest time the political and economic situation is stabilized, the emphasis will be made on construction of multi-profile hospitals.  

The Minister of Lithuania outlined the most sensitive moments in healthcare reform his country had went through: “Your plans are quite correct. But the ways to implement them are very complicated. The pledge of success is strict systemic approach… We have managed to find the happy means through taking long and very hard decisions. And we will share with great pleasure the applied experience with you, help in word and in deed,” Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis stressed.  

In the end of the meeting the parties agreed within nearest time to continue cooperation on constant and formal grounds – as the projects of state agreements between Lithuania and Ukraine in healthcare have been prepared: they just have to be renewed and made more precise, after that – they should be signed and used for the mutual benefit of the two brotherly states.