President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promises to sign a law on rural medicine in the coming days.

"Some of these days ... I will sign the law on rural medicine. This is a special law," he said at a solemn event on the occasion of the Day of Public Prosecutors in Kyiv on Friday.

The president said that this is a special law - a matter of life or death for millions of Ukrainian citizens who live in rural areas.

As reported, on November 14, 217 Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada passed at second reading bill No. 7117 increasing accessibility and quality of healthcare services in rural areas submitted by the Ukrainian president.