Government approved an ordinance to pay wage arrears to doctors

On September 27, at its session the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft resolution "On the distribution of the reserve of medical subvention from the state budget to local budgets in 2017" to pay off salary to employees of healthcare institutions and to provide necessary medical care to patients with chronic renal insufficiency treated by hemodialysis and patients with either pancreatic diabetes or diabetes insipidus.

Pursuant to the draft resolution there will be distributed UAH 559.2 million, of which UAH 81.7 million for the payment of arrears of wages as of October 1.

According to the information provided by the healthcare departments of regional and Kyiv city state administrations, the insufficiency of wages fund to transfer resource to communal healthcare institutions by the year ending 2017 will amount to UAH 2.7 billion.