Saakashvili: Healthcare, Education Key Priorities

Healthcare and education are “major priority of our state” and the government is “spending more money and more efficiently” for these priorities, President Saakashvili said on January 28.

“I have an ambition to make healthcare service available for everyone in nearest years and of same quality as it is in leading foreign countries,” Saakashvili said at a meeting with insurance companies’ top executives.

The government plans to reform state co-financed heath insurance package to also include 50% reimbursement for “certain number” of prescribed medicines, according to PM Nika Gilauri.

PM Gilauri, who also participated in the meeting, said another plan was to restrict insurance companies to send holders of state co-financed insurance policy to hospitals, which would not meet standards set by the government.

“By doing so we will, on the one hand, protect the rights of our citizens [to have an access] to quality healthcare and on the other hand it will be a serious stimulus for insurance companies and others to launch building of small clinics in the provinces,” PM Gilauri said.

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