ANALYSIS OF ACCESSIBILITY OF MEDICINE PROVISION FOR THE POPULATION LIVING IN RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE VOLGOGRAD REGION

Increasing the availability and quality of medical care provided to the population of hard-to-reach areas in the territory of the Russian Federation is one of the main directions of state policy. Today, measures are being taken to improve the efficiency of the healthcare system, namely: regulation of pricing for drugs from the list of vital and essential drugs, for residents of hard-to-reach areas, measures are being taken to improve the quality and availability of drug provision. These innovations became possible largely due to the fact that since 2010, the number of persons retailing pharmaceutical products began to include medical specialists of separate divisions of medical organizations (outpatient clinics, feldsher and feldsher-obstetric stations, centers (departments) of general medical (family) practice, since 2024 district hospitals. This also caused a number of difficulties. These include providing medical outpatient clinics and feldsher-midwife stations with equipment, selecting an optimal list of drugs that meet the nature of the disease, demographic situation and financial capabilities of residents of rural settlements. It is also necessary to take into account the requirements for medical organizations to obtain a license. Given the relevance of the topic under consideration, the purpose of the research is to analyze the problem of supplying medicines to the population of remote areas of the Volgograd Region, as well as to develop ways to improve the availability of medicines in such areas. The necessity and possibility of improving the availability of drug care by developing additional measures and opportunities for licensing pharmaceutical activities for both separate divisions of medical organizations and pharmaceutical organizations of other forms of ownership located in sparsely populated, hard-to-reach areas of the region are shown. Taking into account the identified problems and further ways to solve them, a work plan was formed for both health care authorities and individual pharmaceutical and medical organizations of the Volgograd Region.