Article 6. Powers of Local State Authorities in the Field of the Protection of Citizensʼ Health

The competence of local State authorities shall include:

protection of human rights in the field of health care;

ensuring compliance with the legislation in the field of the protection of citizensʼ health;

establishing management bodies of the health care system and developing the network of its institutions;

organizing primary health care and medical-social assistance, ensuring universal access thereto, and providing the population within their jurisdiction with medicines and medical products;

licensing, in accordance with the established procedure, the retail sale of medicines and medical products in the pharmaceutical sector;

forming own sources for financing health care expenditures;

ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being of citizens, and implementing preventive, sanitary-hygienic, anti-epidemic and environmental protection measures;

protecting the environment and ensuring ecological safety;

adopting measures to save lives and protect the health of people in emergency situations, and informing citizens about the situation in the emergency zone and the measures being taken;

coordinating and supervising the activities of health care bodies, institutions and enterprises, and monitoring the quality of medical-social assistance provided in health care institutions;

establishing institutions for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and persons in need of medical-social protection, and ensuring their functioning;

implementing measures for the protection of the family, motherhood and childhood;

organizing sanitary-hygienic and environmental education of citizens;

creating conditions to encourage the development of private and other health care systems;

exercising other powers in accordance with legislation.