Redistribution of funding in the healthcare system

The 2024 budget amendments were adopted in two readings by members of parliament. The President proposed increasing the funding limits for the state order for the provision of consultative appointments with specialists and diagnostic services for children. The 2024 budget allocated 2 million rubles for these purposes. Minister of Healthcare Kristina Albul noted, almost all the funds had been spent by the end of August, but the need for consultations with specialists and diagnostics for children remained until the end of this year. Therefore, funding for this expense item has been increased by 774 thousand rubles.

The presidential initiative provides for an increase in funding limits for the provision of magnetic resonance imaging services by 1.9 million rubles. Kristina Albul recalled that this is due to breakdowns of computed tomography machines in several government institutions. Another 1 million rubles have been allocated to repair the failed equipment.

The increase in funding limits for the treatment of patients outside the republic by 3.4 million rubles is due, among other things, to the growing number of patients with acute coronary syndrome who require surgical treatment (coronary artery bypass grafting, balloon angioplasty, coronary stenting, laser myocardial revascularization, shock wave therapy). Kristina Albul noted that if there were 403 patients with acute coronary syndrome in 2022, last year – 409 people, then there were already 656 such patients in the first 9 months of this year.

As the Minister of Healthcare noted, all 100% of patients with acute coronary syndrome who need treatment outside Pridnestrovie receive this treatment. It is paid for from the republican budget.

The funds for increasing funding limits in the healthcare system were formed within the framework of savings that appeared as a result of tenders for the purchase of medicines. 

The Parliament supported the legislative initiative of the President and adopted it in two readings at once.