The Scientific-Advisory Council on Health Facilitation and Disease Prevention of the Health Care and Social Issues Committee has discussed the National Healthcare Strategy 2022-2030 and the Action Plan 2022-2024.
Dimitri Khundadze is the Chair of the Committee. He noted that public health care remains a top priority for the government. They have also undertaken extensive reforms in the healthcare program.
“I think it was one the most important reforms. The reforms will be updated, however, as it is a rapidly evolving sphere. “This requires the improvement of the healthcare sector as it affects the entire population and not just certain segments,” said he.
“The majority of the budget is spent on public healthcare.” We must improve the HR policies and enhance the human resource in the healthcare sector. During the pandemic we were once again convinced that a revision and improvement of this direction is needed. It is important to improve both the quality and accessibility of medicines. The initiative by the Prime Minister to open the Turkish market will be very important, as it will lower the cost of medicine, which is of paramount importance, since the majority of our citizens’ expenses go towards medicines,” Khundadze said.
The Health Ministry supported the development of the three-year strategy.
Tamar Gabunia, First Deputy Minister of Health, noted that since 2013, when the government took on the development of the universal healthcare program the accessibility to high quality services has improved. “The government has worked actively for four years to achieve this goal, bringing us closer towards the 2030 commitments. The global society will evaluate the progress of countries on this front, including healthcare quality, access to medicines, and the safety of the population against disease-related financial risk.
Gabunia said that the strategy was a vision of high-quality, need-adjusted health services to protect the population against financial risks in the event of disease.
The strategy aims to improve the health of the populace, provide universal access to healthcare services, and distribute the financial burden equally.
Priorities in the strategy are in line with WHO recommendations. These include: improvement of the health sector, improvement of the efficiency of the financial system in healthcare, development of human resource in the sector, accessibility to high quality, effective and safe medicine, improvement of the management information system in healthcare, enhancement of public healthcare and preparedness for potential health risks.
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