There is a disproportion in the distribution of State Budget funds among the regions of Ukraine in healthcare financing. Thus, Volyn residents make up 2.2 percent of Ukraine's population, but only 0.6 percent of the State Budget is allocated to the region's healthcare. This was reported today during a working trip to Lutsk by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Health, Maternity and Childhood, member of the "Our Ukraine" faction Mykola Polishchuk. According to Mykola Polishchuk, he had a conversation on this matter with the Minister of Finance of Ukraine and First Vice-Premier Mykola Azarov and People's Deputy from Lutsk Volodymyr Bondar. According to him, this disproportion will be eliminated by 2005. Mykola Polishchuk considers one of the reasons for this situation in Volyn to be the adoption of the State Budget without discussion in the session hall and biased financing of regions represented by opposition majority deputies.