MP of the Regions Party faction and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada healthcare committee Tetiana Bakhteyeva has said the main aim of healthcare reform is to provide timely medical aid to every citizen.

"The health issue is very important to everyone. And the role of the state is also important here. Every self-respecting politician should know that the nation's health is the most important factor for the country's development," the MP said during the press conference at the official press center of the Regions Party on Tuesday.

Bakhteyeva stressed that a healthcare reform initiated by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is now bringing positive results. And the parliamentary healthcare committee is very professionally considering medical reforms.

"Over all the years of [Ukraine's] independence there has been a chronic lack of funding. And 2012 was a record year in increasing of the healthcare financing," she said.

The MP said that pilot projects in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Vinnytsia regions and in Kyiv have already brought positive results.

"The regions were supplied with the modern equipment, and new medical assistance stations were opened," Bakhteyeva said.

The politician also mentioned a problem of children's diseases.

"To resolve this problem, a special treatment is needed that requires a lot of money. In the beginning of 2011, a children's regional hospital was open in Cherkassy, one of the best in Ukraine. There are all the right conditions there for the treatment and rehabilitation of children," she added.

As healthcare committee's head reported, seven modern perinatal centers have already been opened.

"An obligatory state medical insurance is one more important moment of the health reform. I'll improve the quality of our medicine. It’s also necessary to resolve the problem of the well-time supply with the medicine. And introduction of the state medical insurance will help to charge the state with this problem," Bakhteyeva said.

Talking about problems of the pharmaceutical sector, she said that support of the Ukrainian producer is one of the main tasks of the state.

"In 2010 the government allocated UAH 65 million to buy equipment to analyze the quality of medicines. There is such equipment in Donetsk region, Crimea and Kyiv," the politician said.

Bakhteyeva also said the practice of the decentralization of purchases of medical goods had brought positive results, and this policy will be continued.

"On May 12, 2012, at the sitting of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine attended by the Ukrainian president, a state of the modern pharmaceutical market was considered, firstly in the history of the independent Ukraine. A number of laws were signed. Strict controls over licenses will be imposed," the Regions Party MP said.