Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who won the Ukrainian presidential election according to exit polls and preliminary results, will support the course of current healthcare reforms, his advisor Yevhen Komarovsky has said.
“The strategy of reforms is the recognition that there is no special national medicine, that there is scientific, evidence-based medicine, there are treatment protocols, there is a modern system of continuing professional development, there are medicines with proven effectiveness, there is a patient’s electronic passport, there is, after all, vaccination as the most effective way to prevent infectious diseases. This is what I have dreamed of all my life. I am not just supporting this. I am a supporter of the current strategic course to conduct the healthcare reform,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday night, commenting on his view of the healthcare system’s development strategy, which he intends to convey to the winner of the presidential race.
Komarovsky said that “there is no alternative to the strategic course for healthcare reform.”
“I see real risks to this course and this is actually the main thing that made me respond positively to Zelensky’s request to become his adviser,” Komarovsky said, commenting on the appeal of a number of nongovernmental organizations to Zelenskiy appearing in social networks on the eve of the elections regarding the healthcare reform, in which these organizations asked the candidate a number of questions.
He said that if Zelenskiy takes advantage of Komarovsky’s advice, he will support the principles of transformation of the health financing system that is happening now and will help “speed up the health care reform in hospitals” and also “do everything in his power to ensure the implementation of the requirement of the law on financing of health care at 5% of GDP.”
