Tbilisi gov't funds costly treatment for 20 cancer patients
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This year Tbilisi local government will fund vital medical treatment for a group of people living with cancer.
Tbilisi City Hall announced it would cover the myriad of costs related to certain treatments including expensive bone marrow transplant treatment for cancer sufferers.
Tbilisi City Hall launched a new program that will finance the treatment of 20 patients with leukaemia or other oncologic diseases in 2015.
Tbilisi Mayor Davit Narmania said the first patient had already received their funding and they would travel to Istanbul, Turkey to get a bone marrow transplant on February 9.
Narmania said through this action he was "fulfilling the promises” he gave to Tbilisi citizens during his election campaign and was implementing new health programs for the benefit of those who lived in Tbilisi.
He noted the program beneficiaries would be selected based on the severity of their illness.
A remarkable step in Georgian medicine – the first living-donor liver transplant - has been successfully performed in Tbilisi.
Socially vulnerable people living in Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi will benefit from special financial support to give them better access to healthcare and other support.
Tbilisi City Hall is allocating three million GEL for a program to treat patients with early stage breast cancer in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.
The Ministry of Labour Health and Social Affairs of Georgia will finance the cost of treatment for patients with early stage breast cancer in Georgia’s regions.
For the first time in the history of Georgia a centre for terminally ill children and minors with chronic diseases has been opened, where patients will receive free care.
Georgia’s Health Ministry hosted a conference today to announce plans to vaccinate against the Papilloma virus which is a main cause of cancer in women.
Tbilisi City Hall has announced plans to increase funding for liver transplantation from existing 60,000 GEL ($21,000) to 70,000 GEL($26,000).