Kazakhstan spends 500.7bln tenge on pharmacological support

Minister of Healthcare Akmaral Alnazarova reported on the measures taken to ensure pharmacological support of the population at today’s meeting of the Government, Kazinform News Agency reports.

According to her, 474 billion tenge is spent from the national budget on the pharmacological support of outpatients and hospital patients. Local budget spending is reported to be at 26.7 billion tenge.

251 billion tenge is allocated for the provision of 3.5 million outpatients with pharmaceuticals in 120 ICD codes.

As for hospital patients, pharmaceuticals for them are bought in accordance with the centralized and independent procurement as per the National Formulary of Kazakhstan.