“The second list is another 600 children who must receive these drugs before they are registered ... According to our data, in the first quarter, all drugs will be brought and transferred to the regions for transmission to patients,” Skvortsova said.
Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a law on the importation of unregistered drugs into Russia to help patients and drug interchangeability.
On November 28, more than 95% of foreign drugs approved by the government for seriously ill children were delivered to Russia.
Anastasia Zhdanova, a lawyer at the palliative care center of the Moscow Department of Health, in an interview with NSN, commented on the Cabinet’s decree on allocating funds from the reserve fund for the purchase of medicines for children with chronic diseases.