Gov't Creates Legal Entity to Enhance Access to Chronic Disease Medications

On the Government’s decision, a new non-entrepreneurial legal entity called Partnership for Access to Healthcare will be established, aiming to enhance access to medical services and medications for the population.  As Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili stated during today’s Government meeting, this initiative will significantly simplify issues related to purchasing medications for chronic diseases.

“In 2013, when the universal healthcare program was introduced in Georgia, it proved a significant relief for the population.  However, purchasing medications for chronic diseases remained a problem.  It is very important that this format, at the initial stage of its implementation, will enable us as early as this year to allow pensioners to buy these pharmaceuticals they need on a daily basis at much cheaper prices.  It is not a profit organization but a non-entrepreneurial legal entity that involves partnership between public and private institutions,” the Prime Minister stated.