Already more than 1 million citizens of Ukraine have used the program "Available medicines" and received medications for cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, bronchial asthma for free or with a small surcharge.

This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health.

The program was joined by 6 thousand. Pharmacies.

"This means that in every third pharmacy in Ukraine patients can receive prescription medications from a doctor from cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes or bronchial asthma included in the program, free of charge or with a small surcharge," the report says..

Pharmacies have already released medicines for 1.4 million recipes and received a refund of 67 million UAH, which is 13.5% of the total amount allocated to the program funds.

Analyzing the reported data, the Ministry of Health made a rating of the regions for the main indicators of program implementation (the number of pharmacies participating in the program, the means used, prescriptions written, reimbursed funds, the number of people who received medication and.

The leaders of the program so far are Vinnytsia, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv regions. Stably the program works in Volyn, Zhytomyr, Ternopil and Cherkasy regions. In May, Kiev, Kiev and Kherson oblasts actively joined. Worse the program works in Chernivtsi, Mykolaiv and Lugansk regions.

Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Ternopil regions are in the first place in terms of the amount of funds used according to the program. Stably use the funds Zaporozhye, Volyn, Khmelnitsky and Poltava region.

Outsiders in this list are Donetsk, Zakarpatye, Mykolaiv and Sumy region.

From July 1, 2017, the Ministry of Health will update the register of reference prices, which will allow the new drug manufacturers to join the program in August. Now in the list of available medicines there are 35 pharmaceutical companies: 20 European, 15 Ukrainian and 2 world.

Recall, on April 1, 2017 in Ukraine, the program "Available Medications" was launched, with the help of which every Ukrainian can receive medicines in free or at low cost in three categories: cardiovascular diseases, bronchial asthma and diabetes of the second type. Medicines can be obtained only by correctly prescribed prescription.