Considering that Prime Minister of Ukraine repeatedly stressed the urgency of reforming the pharmaceutical sector, the EBA chose the hot topic for the latest EuroDebates - Providing the Ukrainian Population with medical drugs – approaches to reforming.
Seeking to build a promising dialogue between decision-makers, the EBA Health Care Committee arranged the EuroDebates focusing on the crucial issue of providing medical drugs to the Ukrainian population. This time the EBA EuroDebates took place in the Premier Palace Hotel, Sofiyivsky Grand Hall, at 17:30 (5-7/29 T. Shevchenka Blvd / Pushkinska Str., Kiev 01004, Ukraine).
For the first time within recent years the EBA EuroDebates saw key state players convene to discuss the major aspects of the pharmaceutical sector:
Medical drugs pricing
Developing and implementing a reimbursement system for medical drugs consumption
Providing institutional changes in State Administration of Pharmaceutical Sector
Guest speakers:
Igor YAKOVENKO, Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine
Inna DEMCHENKO, Acting Head of State Service of Medical Drugs
Viktor CHUMAK, Director of Affiliate ‘State Pharmaceutical Centre of Ukraine’
Volodymyr IGNATOV, Head of EBA Health Care Committee
Volodymyr RUDENKO, Head of National Public Organisation ‘Pharmacy Professional Association of Ukraine’
Viktor SHAFRANSKY, President of Innovative Medical Drugs Producers’ Association
Vyacheslav PEREDERIY, First Deputy Head of Verkhovna Rada Health Care Committee
Valeriy KONOVALYUK, Head of Subcommittee on Budget Programmes Planning and Health Care Budget Controlling
Valeriy STETSIV, Deputy Head of State Medical Drugs Quality Inspection, Deputy State Senior Inspector
Nearly 80 EBA members and 20 pressmen turned up to the EuroDebates featuring representatives of Ministry of Health, state officials, leading experts in pharmaceutical sector, businesses and NGOs.
EBA HR Committee
at the EBA office in Kyiv, 1-st floor, 1A Andriyivsky Uzviz. The meeting was devoted to summarising results of the EBA HR Committee activity in 2008. During this meeting the participants discussed the Committee priorities and action plan for 2009.
was held in Victoriya Hotel. Mr Ihor Sbitnev, the Chairman of the EBA Branch Board, greeted participants and wished them Happy New Year and Merry Christmas. He expressed hope that the next year would bring new opportunities and prospects for business development to the EBA members .
