The State Duma supported the idea of free medicines for large families

The initiative to provide children in large families with free medicines is very good and needs to be implemented. Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, expressed this opinion on Friday, April 17.

According to the MP, children should not be left without state help if it is very difficult for their families to purchase medicines for treatment.

"We need to proceed from the statistics available to the Ministry of Health, and given that we already have territories where medical records are kept in electronic form, I think it is possible to calculate and roughly imagine what budget expenditures will be needed. This is exactly the position that is worth moving forward on other issues," Bessarab said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

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Earlier, Sergei Mironov, chairman of the Fair Russia party, said that children from large families should be provided with medicines for free from the federal budget, Moscow 24 writes.

In turn, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, MP Kaplan Panes, said that parliament receives hundreds of appeals from citizens suffering from severe forms of migraines. 360.ru . In this regard, the deputy sent three proposals to the Ministry of Health: the inclusion of a drug for severe migraine in the program "14 high-cost nosologies", which is funded from the federal budget; the development of clear criteria for providing free treatment or disability to patients with chronic migraine; conducting an all-Russian study of the prevalence of migraine to assess the real economic damage from it.