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Health council urges NIS 466m. expansion of services

...Some of the drugs are meant for as many as 24,000 patients, while others will go to just a few hundred who need them each year.

When the government approves them, Health Ministry Director-General Avi Yisrael will issue orders to the health funds to provide them immediately to qualified patients, but there will be no retroactive coverage, even though the expanded basket should have been approved before January 1.

Israel Medical Association chairman Dr.

Yoram Blachar, a member of the public committee, said that the committee included "the most vital drugs for saving and extending life and preventing suffering.

A failure to include them would not allow the required level of medical care." He added that there remained a long list of other important drugs outside the basket, such as Avastin for colon cancer.PrintE-mailSubscribeHEALTH[ more » ]Health council urges NIS 466m.

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