Ukrainian Diabetes Federation held today a press conference on the occasion of the upcoming World Diabetes Day, entitled “Diabetes and wars: how investments in healthcare save lives and support the economy.”
The event was attended by Maksym Perebyinis, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health Care of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Medical Care and Medical Insurance; Ivan Zhuk, Head of the National Health Service of Ukraine and representatives of expert and patient communities. Volodymyr Korolenko, Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine on Medicines and Drugs Control, has also participated in the event.
Participants discussed the prospects for investments in diabetes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in terms of full-scale war in Ukraine, as well as their impact on life quality and economic development in the country.