OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2012. Providing Ukraine's health care institutions with medical equipment and motor vehicles is implemented by the Ministry of Health within the funds allocated from the State Budget of Ukraine for centralized purchasing of medical equipment according to state health care programs. That was announced by Deputy Health Minister Oleksandr Tolstanov during a briefing.

In the country, the latest medical equipment are actively being purchased, particularly for computed tomography, ultrasonic diagnostics, mammography, radiology, surgery, there are working programs for implementation of advanced technologies (telemedicine), equipment ambulances with satellite system of GPS-navigation.

In addition, ambulances fleet is being updated. "This year, the pilot Regions of Ukraine (Vinnitsa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk Regions and Kyiv) received 286 cars: 70 reanimobiles of Type C and 216 ambulances of Type B," said Oleksandr Tolstanov.

As of November 21, according to the territorial bodies of public health, to conduct the procurement procedures of medical equipment and consumables by subventions from the state budget to local budgets in 2012 it is used UAH 1442 476.1 thousand.

In general, the amount of subventions provided by the state budget to local budgets in 2012 makes UAH 1 864 115.1 thousand.