Purchases of medicines and medical products for the funds of the 2017 national budget in 2017 could be disrupted, head of the parliamentary health committee Olha Bohomolets forecasts.
“Procurement of medicines for the 2017 budget funds will also be disrupted. To conduct it, it is necessary to approve nomenclatures and sign agreements. The Ministry of Health has done nothing of these,” she said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.
She noted the Ministry of Health had not approved standards of treatment that would allow the approval of the procurement nomenclature.
According to Bohomolets, it is possible to correct the situation with purchases of medicines for national budget funds through setting up a national procurement agency.
“We need to create a national procurement agency under the Ministry of Economy, through the ProZorro system, under Nefyodov [Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov]. Today there are instruments to fight corruption,” she said.
The expert noted it is impossible to liquidate international purchases without creating a new system.
Bohomolets stressed the creation of a national purchasing agency “is being blocked at the moment by the Ministry of Health, since, according to Ulana Suprun, its creation is not timely until 2019.”
