How does the State Program for hepatitis prevention work?

They say in the department for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis that the State Program for the prevention and treatment of viral hepatitis B and C have been awaited for a long time. The first calls from patients began to arrive in the middle of summer, when the document had just been accepted. Patients from all cities and regions of Pridnestrovie began to come to the metropolitan department themselves and come in whole organized groups after the new year.

If the diagnosis is confirmed, the patient receives treatment under the state program. All necessary tests and preparations are free of charge. Medicines that are used to treat viral hepatitis are modern, well tolerated by patients and give good results in a short time, it was note in the clinical diagnostic department for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis. The medicines are recommended by WHO and the world's leading institutions for the treatment of hepatitis.

There are about two thousand people in Pridnestrovie now with a confirmed diagnosis of hepatitis C, it is only according to official data. Doctors say that this is the tip of the iceberg. The department for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis, which is located on the territory of the Republican Clinical Hospital in Tiraspol, began to receive patients with advanced cases and those who were treated by other specialists after the adoption of the state target program, including outside of Pridnestrovie.

Treatment lasts from 12 to 24 weeks on average. Repeated analyzes and final recovery are further. According to statistics, it occurs in 98% of cases, but the treatment of such patients is only part of the state program.

State register of patients with viral hepatitis B and C was created with the money allocated from the state budget, a laboratory was organized and reagents were purchased last year. Further funding under the state program will be spent in three areas - prevention, diagnosis and treatment. It is planned during four years to cover about 50% of patients with viral hepatitis in Pridnestrovie with treatment.

The first reports on the results of the work of the state program for the prevention of viral hepatitis will be considered at meetings of the relevant committee.