Challenges to Georgia’s Health System on the Municipal Level amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Challenges to Georgia’s Health System on the Municipal Level amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Nino Mirzikashvili
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Welfare services
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic;
Summary/Abstract: Municipal public healthcare services are funded by the local budget, though their management is the prerogative of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health. Notably, programs in which local healthcare services are engaged may be funded by the central government too. The coronavirus pandemic demonstrated that the lack of human resources is the primary challenge on the municipal level. Effective management of the crisis is largely dependent on the epidemiologists’ and healthcare professionals’ efforts on local levels.

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