Health Care Reforms
Invited guests:
Sopio Lebanidze - Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Affairs. Head of health care department;
Simon Gabrichidze – Non-governmental organization “Welfare Foundation”, projects manager.
The invited guests listed the specific directions of ongoing health care reforms, talked about privatization hospital sector and improvement of medical quality, primary health care system, health insurance and pharmaceutical sector.
The invited guests talked about the issues related to effective control mechanism of quality and Patient Safety on medicines and servcice provided in medical institutions, as well as about the issue of access to treatment for public, state health care expenditures, about the importance of involvement of non-governmental sector in reform process.
Organization “Welfare Foundation”, has learned the changes implemented as a result of the reforms in the frames of European Union and has prepared appropriate conclusion. Simon Gabrichidze has introduced to the audience the results of these changes and his considerations about ongoing reforms, also has talked about the exsited challenges and problems in the health sector.
