Bashkiria will receive another 135 million for free medicines for COVID-19

Bashkiria will allocate another 134.8 million rubles from the country's reserve fund to provide CORONAVIRUS patients with free medicines. We are talking about patients receiving treatment at home. In total, 5.1 billion rubles were additionally distributed among the subjects of the country for these purposes, the corresponding order was signed by the HEAD of the Cabinet of Ministers, Mikhail Mishustin.

The largest interbudgetary transfer will be sent to the Moscow region - 306 million rubles, the Sverdlovsk region will receive 264 million, 151.1 million allocated to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The smallest amount was allocated for Baikonur - 623.7 thousand rubles and for the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - 816.6 thousand rubles.

Mikhail Mishustin announced the decision to additionally allocate funds from the country's reserve fund for the purchase of free medicines at a meeting of the council to combat the spread of covid-19 on September 30. The Prime Minister noted that the epidemiological situation in RUSSIA remains tense, more than 20,000 new cases of infection are detected every day, while most of the infected are treated at home.

The funds will be used to purchase medicines for patients who are treated on an outpatient basis. To prevent a severe course of infection, they are prescribed combined treatment regimens, drugs are given free of charge by prescription. In September, there was a shortage of medicines in the republic for the free provision of patients receiving treatment at home. The head of the region, Radiy Khabirov, noted that as soon as they stop issuing these drugs to patients in Bashkiria, "hospitals are overloaded."

Earlier, the republic received 412.4 million rubles from the country's reserve fund for these purposes, the last transfer was allocated in July in the amount of 45.4 million. December 2020, January and March 2021.