Upharmacia March 2017
HEALTHCARE NEWS
L aw on public procurements to
be revised
The Head of Parliamentary
Committee on Public Health
Olga Bohomolets has officially
asked the Committee on
Corruption Prevention to
analyze the Law on public
procurements regarding
the presence of corruption
component. Mrs. Bohomolets
considers current situation with
public procurements in Ukraine
as critical. As on mid-Mar, only
9% of drugs, which supposed
to be procured for the funds
of 2016, were supplied in
the regions. Moreover, Mrs.
Bohomolets thinks that the
prices of drugs procured by
International organizations
are too high. The Head of
the Committee wants to set
the limits on the minimum
expiration dates of drugs
procured through international
organizations.
Since 2015, Ukraine have been
cooperating with International
organizations (UNDR, UNICEF
and Crown Agents) on
delegated procurement of
pharmaceuticals for Ukraine.
The main issues, which arose
with the cooperation, were
large delays in supplies and
inappropriate expiration dates
of drugs.
PM A waits the C andidates for
the H ead of MOH P osition
The Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Volodymyr Groisman intends
to nominate the candidacy of
the Minister of Healthcare of
Ukraine for the consideration
by the Parliament after
the coalition takes the
corresponding decision.
“We have started the
consultations,” Mr. Groisman
said. “After the coalition makes
the decision, I will do my duty.”
Since Jul 2016, the responsibili-
ties of the Head of MOH have
being performed by Ulana
Suprun, who holds the position
of the acting Minister.
T he P arliamentary C ommittee
A pprove the B ill on C linics
A utonomization
The Parliamentary Committee
on Public Health approved
modified version of the Draft
Law No 2309-d, which is to
provide autonomization to
healthcare facilities in Ukraine.
The document envisages the
prohibition of privatization of
state and municipal hospitals,
changing the status of medical
institutions from the status
of budgetary institutions to
the status of non-commercial
and non-profit enterprises.
The medical services could be
payed to the medical institution
from different financial sources
– state and regional budgets,
insurance companies, funds,
legal entities (employers) as
well as individuals. The funds
of a medical institution will be
managed by its head physician,
who is watched by supervisory
board for the health care
institution.
The first version of the
document had been developed
by the MOH in 2015, but it
caused a lot of debates in the
Parliament due to the risk of
privatization of the healthcare
facilities. The autonomization
of healthcare facilities was
supposed to become the first
step within the reformation of
healthcare system of Ukraine.
T he MOH P lans to R eform the
B lood S ervice
The Deputy Head of