Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded the list of children’s diseases for which medicines are provided through the Circle of Kindness Foundation. The corresponding resolution was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The diseases that have been added to the list are hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, pituitary dwarfism, Gaucher’s disease, malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissues, multiple sclerosis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and some others.
On December 23, 2022, it became known that the government would allocate almost 70 billion rubles to the Circle of Kindness.