Acting Health Minister Uliana Suprun has been given a free hand to form her own management team at the ministry. "The Health Ministry should become a team of people who think the same way.It shouldn't be a ministry of doctors or a ministry of patients. It should be a health care ministry," Suprun said at a press conference in Kyiv while being introduced to journalists.
The Health Ministry will have to conduct a number of reforms, in particular, the development of primary health care, the introduction of hospital districts, the transition to a new health financing system and improvement of emergency medical services.Among the most important issues in medicine Uliana Suprun called the vaccination of children, viewing it as a matter of national security.