(FEDERAL NEWS) Healthcare and Social Development Minister Tatiana Golikova, at the Meeting of the Presidium of the Council on Priority National Projects, Informed That the Government Intends over the Nearest Two Years to Establish Institutions for Advocacy of Patients’ Rights, and Schemes to Insure the Responsibility of Health Professionals.

(FEDERAL NEWS) Chaired by Minister of Health and Social Development of Russia Tatiana Golikova, a telephone conference with the heads of executive authorities and territorial foundations for compulsory medical insurance of subjects of the Russian Federation was held on 7 December.

When opening the session, Tatiana Golikova emphasized that on the whole, at the federal and regional levels, a significant planned and organizational work had been undertaken with regard to purchasing pharmaceuticals and providing beneficial groups of people with them in 2008 including people suffering from severe diseases. In December 2007, all regions will receive a total of 990 million rubles (€27.8 million) to finance deliveries of pharmaceuticals to drug-stores and patients to treat hemophilia, mucoviscidosis, pituitary nanism, Gaucher's disease, myeloleukemia, multiple sclerosis, as well as conditions after organ/tissue transplantations.

The managerial staff and experts of the ministry continue to monitor daily the provision of pharmaceuticals and are making every effort to ensure regular providing people [with pharmaceuticals] in 2008.

 

According to the aggregate results of the STADA Group, overall sales in 2007 reached €1.57 billion, which beats the results in 2006 by 26 percent; €990.7 million out of the figure (63 percent) fell on international sales (sales beyond Germany). The dynamics growth figure for international sales of the STADA Group’s produce rose by 30 percent as compared to 2006.

UN, September 25 - /Ksenia Kaminskaya, special correspondent, ITAR-TASS/. The day before, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on behalf of Russia signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. At the Organization’s Headquarters, he also gave for keeping the charter of Russia’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has to do with involvement of children in armed conflicts.