Universal healthcare program has been launched in 2013. Basic package covers planned outpatient, emergency outpatient and hospital services, planned surgical services, oncological diseases treatment and childbirth. The program also provides funding for essential drugs for target groups of the population. The program beneficiaries are Georgian citizens, holders of a status-neutral ID, a status-neutral travel document; as well as stateless persons in Georgia, persons with refugee or humanitarian status and asylum-seekers. The program operates on the entire territory of the country, both near the border and in other regions.

Except state insurance program duties of the government, which it took on its own responsibility, includes multiple programs of public healthcare and provision of medical services in most important healthcare sectors.

The aim of public healthcare program is supporting healthcare in the population, settling rules of healthy lifestyle, which is executed by different programs, helping to prevent many dangerous diseases, also arrangements to improve health state of the population.

Public healthcare includes programs, which help to prevent infectious and oncology diseases. Early detection of these diseases insures protection of the population to be increased from one point, and from the other point it ensures optimization of state expenses. Also immunization of the population, early detection of the diseases and support of screening programs, infectious diseases, like tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis viruses, AIDS, and other infections, controlling their spread and making necessary arrangements to settle healthy lifestyle for the entire population of the country.

Delivering medical services to the population in priority fields means to ensure geographic accessibility of integrated medical services, also to increase effectiveness according to expenses and results of medical services; reduction of mortality for mothers and children, to protect the population from expensive medical expenses, reduction of mortality caused by infectious and non-infectious diseases, improvement in provision of specific medications for the population.

Ketevan Goginashvili, MPH

Head of Health Policy Division

Health Care Department

Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs

144 Tsereteli Ave

Tbilisi 0119, Georgia

Tel: +995 32 251 00 38 ext 1108

Mob: 995 577717984