According to Ukrinform, Health Minister Viktor Liashko made the announcement during a television broadcast.

"We appeal to society and call for social responsibility: any attack on a person in a white coat must be condemned by society as a whole. There must be no acceptance and no justification that someone simply looked at someone the wrong way. This is fundamentally wrong and should never be tolerated. If today we bully doctors, tomorrow we will face problems with healthcare," Liashko said.

He added that the Ministry of Health and the parliamentary healthcare committee had prepared a draft law increasing criminal penalties for attacks against healthcare workers.

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"This applies to all healthcare professionals—doctors, rehabilitation specialists, and everyone working in healthcare institutions. At our recent meeting with Mykhailo Radutskyi and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk, we discussed this draft law, and we will ask Parliament to consider it as quickly as possible so that law enforcement agencies can apply the appropriate legal measures to reduce potential violence," Liashko said.

As Ukrinform previously reported, in Kyiv, a man stabbed a female doctor to death while undergoing a military medical examination. The suspect was detained.

Investigators have launched a pre-trial investigation under Part 2, Paragraph 8, Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (premeditated murder). The offense carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.