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Premier Azarov: Ukraine's spending for gas is more than annual expenses for medicine
23.04.2012 14:46 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Ukraines spending on Russia gas is more than total annual expenses on health care, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said, visiting the Kyiv center of radiation medicine, ForUm learned from the Cabinets press office.
«We pay Russia for gas more than we spend on health care per year. We could have increased expenses on health care two- or threefold, if we did not bear this burden,» Azarov said.
At the same time the prime minister pointed out that the financing of the health care sector in Ukraine had been increased and that hospitals would be modernized in view of economic growth.
As reported, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych declared that because of disadvantageous gas contracts, signed by Yulia Tymoshenkos government, Ukraine loses 30 billion hryvnias annually.
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