ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Health Minister Andro Vlahusic has announced that the government will propose to the parliament that the budgetary funding for public health increase by one billion kuna (approximately 137 million euros) in
2003.
ZAGREB, Sept 28 (Hina) - Health Minister Andro Vlahusic has
announced that the government will propose to the parliament that
the budgetary funding for public health increase by one billion
kuna (approximately 137 million euros) in 2003. #L#
The total funds to be earmarked for this purpose will thus rise by
eight percent to 13.9 billion kuna (EUR1.9 billion) in 2003,
Minister Vlahusic said on Saturday during his lecture at an
international conference on health insurance in countries in
transition, in Zagreb.
Commenting on the additional health insurance in Croatia, Vlahusic
said that in the first four months since its introduction, 716,000
insurees paid it, and this was 30 percent of a total number of
citizens who had the right to additional insurance. Of those
716,000, about 340,000 were pensioners.
Our objective is to collect one billion kuna annually from the
additional insurance and to encompass 1.2 million insured persons,
the minister added.
The additional insurance covers services of specialists, doctors'
consultations, drugs and orthopaedic aid.
(hina) ms