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Azerbaijan govâ€™t receives list of diseases including compulsory health insurance package

20 September 2016 15:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Farid Mirzayev – APA. The list of diseases included in a compulsory health insurance package has been submitted to Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers, Zaur Aliyev, director of the country’s State Agency for Compulsory Health Insurance told APA on Tuesday.

According to him, the basic package includes more than 1800 medical services like examination, treatment, diagnostic procedures, surgery, etc.

He said a number of laboratory examinations, MRI, CT, X-ray examinations will be also included in the compulsory health insurance package. “Most of therapeutic treatments will be covered by compulsory health insurance,” Aliyev added.

The State Agency director noted that this package also includes surgical operations, certain expensive surgeries.

“Our researches revealed that most of the citizens suffer from cardiovascular disease that requires more funds. Therefore, brain aneurysm, peripheral vascular surgery, esophageal surgery, closed and open-heart surgery will be also covered by insurance. There are state programs on a number of diseases - cancer, chronic kidney failure, examination and treatment of patients with diabetes. Thus, treatment of these diseases was not included in compulsory health insurance package. We are planning to provide insurance for these diseases in the future,” he said.