BARNAUL, December 1 - RIA Novosti. Patients with confirmed coronavirus or similar symptoms in Barnaul who are undergoing outpatient treatment have begun to receive free medicines, the regional government reports.
"Today, December 1, Barnaul outpatient clinics will begin issuing free medicines to outpatient patients. Medicines will be received by those patients who have already confirmed COVID-19 and those who have symptoms similar to it," the message says.
If the patient's diagnosis is not laboratory-confirmed, but at least two symptoms similar to coronavirus are present, he will be given free drugs. Currently, patients with mild to moderate severity of the disease are treated at home. A set of drugs has been developed for varying degrees of severity based on the guidelines of the Russian Ministry of Health.
“If a patient calls a doctor or an emergency team, doctors come to him already having kits for varying degrees of severity of the disease, because initially they cannot determine it by phone. After the patient is examined, he is diagnosed and given a set of drugs. The second model is when a patient contacts a medical organization through a filter box. In this case, he is also diagnosed and given a set depending on the severity of the disease, "the press service of the government quotes the head of the department for organizing medical care for the adult population of the regional health ministry Zhanna Vakhlova.
The Altai Territory has allocated more than 87 million rubles from the federal budget for the purchase of medicines for the treatment of patients with coronavirus on an outpatient basis.
The latest data on the situation with COVID-19 in Russia and the world are presented on the stopkoronavirus.ru portal.
