“All that the government calls “reforms”, all so-called improvements only cause resentment in public. For example, today the walls of Parliament gathered about 30 thousand opponents of a land reform that the power itself try to adopt to meet the requirements of the IMF for the next tranche, “- said the Deputy Chairman of the European Party of Ukraine, the Head of the Central Executive Committee Valeriy Klochok on the TV channel News One today.
“Another reform is an American-style health reform, which a former US citizen, a volunteer and now acting Health Minister Suprun imposes us. Such model of the health reform is worse than European and it would be logical to use in Ukraine the European model. But the success of its implementation depends on the simultaneous decentralization. Just do not replace “decentralization” that we have now with the real power decentralization in order to expand the powers of local authorities”, – said Valeriy Klochok.
“How is it possible to gather in one hospital district 120 thousand citizens for primary care? How can be grouped in one district 200 thousand citizens for providing secondary care? How can one medical institution assist 300 thousand citizens (as it is proposed by the draft law on health reform) in cardiovascular diseases, when the average population in our district center is about 10-15 thousand people, and in villages lives 500-1,000 people and the vast majority of them are of retirement age. How is it possible to quickly deliver the patient to the hospital with current “European” roads?”- asks the Head of the Executive Committee of the European Party of Ukraine.
According to Valeriy Klochok, the health reform must be conducted together with the introduction of health insurance. “The success of health reform depends on the introduction of health insurance, for which, unfortunately, the vast majority of Ukrainians are not willing to pay. In the case of a decision on the implementation of the health reform in the form in which we were proposed, it will eventually lead to physical destruction of Ukrainians”, – he added.
Press service of the European Party of Ukraine