Tbilisi City Hall will finance additional examinations for beneficiaries of the expensive medication financing programme for citizens diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, mayor Kakha Kaladze announced earlier today.
Treatment with magnetic resonance brain imaging, as well as procedures for the spine and spinal cord, will be financed by the city authority starting this year.
In comments revealing the decision on the city hall initiative, Kaladze said symptoms of the disease appeared in the 20-40 age group and caused non-traumatic disabilities for the group.
The mayor said the programme allowed beneficiaries “not to be chained to a bed or wheelchair, but to engage in daily activities and feel like full members of society”.
Based on the research published by SAGE in 2020, a total of 2.8 million people were estimated to live with multiple sclerosis worldwide, while in Georgia neurologists estimate more than 1,000 patients, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Georgian service reported.
Tbilisi City Hall launched the programme of financing expensive medications for citizens diagnosed with the disease in 2020.