Yanukovych supports transition to contract-based health care

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says he supports a transition to contract-based medical services provided to households.

"We will fix the situation – we need to switch over to the contract-based purchase of healthcare services. The simultaneous fulfillment of reform in the budget-sustained model for healthcare financing in Ukraine would pave the way for a transition to insurance-based medicine," he said in his state-of-the-nation address at Kyiv's Ukraina Palace on Thursday.