PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT 2017-2020 The Government will initiate organization of state competitions in around ten different categories and high-school Olympics, following the Youth Student Games, on which most talented high-school students will compete in Olympic disciplines. Hence, we will create successful young talents, we will develop knowledge and sports spirit with the young people, and we will secure socializing among high-school students of all country. The Government will create conditions for increased number of sport classes in the primary and secondary education with trainings and competitions in almost all sports. Our goal is for all the pupils to be able to socialize and live a healthy life without making it a financial burden for their parents. Quality Healthcare The Government of the Republic of Macedonia aims to build accessible, quality and financially long-term sustainable healthcare having the citizens in the center of the healthcare system, and also strengthened sensitivity and responsibility of the individual for his/her own health and the health of the others. The overload administrative work of the healthcare workers will be decreased, and the care for the patient will be put in attention. The Government will propose annulment of the participation for hospital care. The healthcare system of Macedonia will be connected in an integrated information system, and a net of healthcare institutions will be established which would include full coverage with ambulances, especially in the suburban and rural areas. In order to cease the outflow of medical staff from the public healthcare, the Government will provide for normal working conditions and higher incomes. Providing higher incomes, bigger chances for specialization and improvement of the conditions for their medical practice, we will make an atmosphere because of which more doctors would like to stay in Macedonia. Good organization of the healthcare activity is the one that gives advantage to preventive and primary healthcare. In the preventive healthcare, the Government will stand and contribute for: preserving and improving the health of the population, in particular the vulnerable groups (children, pregnant women, old people, chronically ill and disabled people); healthcare education in schools with the aim to adopt healthy lifestyles (appropriate nutrition, physical activity, prevention of tobacco, alcohol and psychoactive substances addictions, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, and problems related to mental health); broad expert debate for the needs and the benefits of vaccination, along with purchase of quality vaccines. The quality, and not the price, will be the key criteria; enhanced control of the current infectious diseases that have importance for the population’s health; measures and activities in order to decrease morbidity, disability and the premature mortality caused by the most chronically non-infectious diseases (cardio and cerebrovascular diseases, malignant diseases and the diabetes) through promotion of health with organized activities by the Government, the healthcare institutions, non-governmental organizations and citizens associations; strengthening the capacities of the dental healthcare in the system, actually, and not just on paper, implementation of the programs for early detection of malignant disease in order to have a diagnosis in the early stage. 34