In large measure, this is due to the relatively low level of public health spending in the country (about 3.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008) that underlines the significant gap between the constitutional commitment to a range of medical care services and the actual funding to pay for them. While drugs are supposed to be provided to hospital patients free of charge, an estimated 80 percent of inpatients still have to pay part of the...
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Action needed : spiraling drug prices empty Russian pockets
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Aspirin
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Marquez,Patricio V.; Bonch-Osmolovskiy,Mikhail.
Action needed : spiraling drug prices empty Russian pockets (Russian). Europe and Central Asia knowledge brief ; volume no. 19 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/918871468107679209