Agreements with international organizations for purchase of medicines for the 2016 national budget funds proposed by the Ministry of Health are of poor quality, contain blunders and discriminatory conditions, according to public organizations activists.
“Health Ministry officials loudly and publicly launched the 2016 procurement cycle, sending relevant contracts to international organizations. In practice, the documents turned to be of low quality, and certain provisions in them contradict Ukrainian legislation and common sense. The ministry officials offer international organizations to sign the agreement, which cannot be fulfilled,” reads a statement made by NGO Patients of Ukraine and Anticorruption Action Centre.
According to activists, the Health Ministry management “smoothly reported on the contracts sent to international organizations, however, they forgot to say the Ministry of Health has significantly changed their conditions compared with the previous year so as to prevent the rapid signing of these contracts on the part of international organizations, whose lawyers proofread every comma.”
“This is done intentionally to go on a long negotiation process, to kill the clock and once again show everyone the process is hampered by foreign partners rather than the ministry officials,” Chairman of Anticorruption Action Centre Vitaliy Shabunin said.
At the same time, the activists point out the international organizations in May this year sent framework contracts to the Ministry of Health.
