Policy

Revision of the booking of doctors: Zelensky enacts NSDC decision

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to revise the conditions for booking doctors. This is stated in Decree No. 817/2024 on the president’s website, Komersant ukrainskyi reports

According to the document, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Council’s decision.

The decree comes into force on the day of its publication.

Within a month, the Cabinet of Ministers must regulate the ban on appointing people with medical education to military positions not related to medical practice during martial law. The only exception is the doctor’s own desire.

Also, during the same period, the expediency of changes in the conditions and mechanism of reservation during martial law for conscripted doctors, rehabilitation specialists and other healthcare representatives working in state and municipal institutions should be determined.

The following issues are in question

• lifting restrictions on the number (in percentage terms) of employees liable for military service in state and municipal healthcare institutions, public health institutions, institutions that carry out forensic medical and forensic psychiatric examinations, and blood centers, for whom work in the relevant institutions is the main place of employment, regardless of military specialty
• establishing an obligation for regional, Kyiv and Sevastopol city state administrations to coordinate with the relevant central executive authorities the criteria by which enterprises, institutions and organizations that are critical for the functioning of the economy and the livelihood of the population during the special period and for meeting the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations during the special period are identified.

In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers must:

• ensure the digitalization of the processes of the system of medical examinations, including of pre-conscripts, conscripts and persons liable for military service, by military medical commissions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, primarily by freelance permanent military medical commissions of territorial recruitment and social support centers;
• to consider the need for additional legislative regulation of rehabilitation of the military based on the conclusion of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, regardless of the disability;
• to intensify the implementation of the medical information system in military medical institutions of military formations and military units;
• to ensure mandatory electronic registration of wounded / injured / sick servicemen of the defense forces and electronic medical records in military medical institutions of military formations;
• to take measures to implement electronic referrals of defense personnel to civilian medical institutions for medical and/or rehabilitation assistance;
• to take additional cyber hygiene measures in the process of functioning of the electronic healthcare system and its components to ensure the protection of relevant information, including personal data of patients, from unauthorized access, destruction, and modification;
• to regulate within three months at the regulatory and legal level the issue of introducing electronic informing of military units in real time about the period of stay and the institution where servicemen are treated through the mechanism of electronic sick leave sheets;
• to take additional measures within three months to comprehensively address issues related to the organization of procurement, testing, processing, storage, distribution, transportation and sale of donated blood and blood components, and the functioning of the blood system.

The Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Ministry of Education and Science to amend the educational programs for training applicants for professional higher education in the field of healthcare. This includes an increase in the number of hours spent studying military medical training and emergency medicine.