In early April, the Health Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament approved a draft decree on a dismissal of Acting Minister of Health Ulana Suprun. The reasons for this decision (quote): “heightened societal tension caused by the disruption of international drug procurement in 2016 due to likely negligence of duties, and in relation to professional ineptitude.”
On the same day, Olga Bogomolets, the Committee Chair and MP from Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, explained on her Facebook page why she supported the idea of Suprun’s dismissal: “We need to figure out the cause of our healthcare catastrophe — whether it is due to the acting minister’s professional ineptitude or conscious government policy, since the government’s performance in healthcare was also deemed unsatisfactory by the Committee”.
