Abstract
Ukraine has a potentially major and lucrative medical equipment market. This
report is ideal for executives wanting to understand the key drivers in the
medical market and have access to a wealth of statistical data, including
five-year market projections. Included with the report are 3 free quarterly
updated outlook reports, enabling you to keep up to date with market
developments for a year.
Ukraine is the second-largest republic of the former Soviet Union. With a
population of almost 50 million, it is also one of the larger countries in
Europe as a whole. For this reason, Ukraine represents a potentially major and
lucrative medical equipment market.
In practice, this is not the case. The country, along with most of the rest of
the former USSR, has adjusted poorly to the market conditions which followed
the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Economic reform has been slow, held
back by bureaucracy and communist-era attitudes. Where reforms have taken
place, they have tended to be accompanied by widespread corruption. Ukraine
currently has more in common with Russia and Belarus than with the more
developed economies of central Europe and the reinstatement of pro-Russia
Viktor Yanukovych as Prime Minister in March 2006, may slow the reform process.
The healthcare system has not been a major reform priority, remaining
inefficient and chronically underfunded. Ukraine lags behind even Russia, in
that it has not yet been able to implement a national health insurance system,
although discussions are underway. There is a small private healthcare sector,
largely consisting of specialist clinics. Hospital care is very much in the
public sector and most hospital equipment is obsolete. Ukraine has a strong
medical research sector, but in terms of quality, few manufacturers have the
capacity to compete with the West.
This report comprises four main sections: Medical Device Market Outlook,
Background Data, Healthcare System, and Accessing the Medical Device Market.
The Outlook section provides analysis of the market and five-year forecasts by
technology category, national data projections and key market developments.
Other sections provide a wealth of background and market access information,
including population trends, morbidity and mortality, health expenditure,
organisation & administration, hospital services, ambulatory care, medical
personnel, trade data and essential industry contacts.
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