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About 2,500 people benefited from free prosthetic operations last year

13:58 | 12.03.2021 Category: Social

Chisinau, 12 March /MOLDPRES/- About 2,500 hip, knee and shoulder prosthesis surgeries were performed in 2020 as part of the large joint prosthesis program, funded by compulsory health insurance funds.

According to CNAM data, most prosthetic operations were performed on the hip - 1521, followed by the knee - 966, and eight shoulder prostheses.

Over 107 million lei had been allocated for the cases treated from the compulsory health insurance funds. In addition, almost 2 million 780 thousand lei had been allocated for expensive consumables.

The average cost of a treated case, covered by the compulsory medical insurance amounted to around 44 thousand lei.

 

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