The State Enterprise "

" In the coming days, the corresponding changes should leave the Ministry of Health in order to go to the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Economy will submit them to the Cabinet of Ministers, "

Zhumadilov clarified that the status of the central purchasing authority will allow the MOH to work both with state budget funds and with local budget funds.

He also said that in the Ministry of Health procurement of medicines and medical devices is currently supervised by First Deputy Minister Andrei Semivolos.

According to Zhumadilov, the lack of a central purchasing authority status did not allow the Ministry of Public Health to conduct pilot purchases of state budget funds in 2019.

" The delay in the decision to grant the status of a central purchasing center was caused, inter alia, by the fact that in the summer it was known that there would be a new parliament, a new Cabinet, there was simply a lack of political will to resolve this issue. At the end of August, we realized: even if we get this status in September 2019, we won’t have time to make a purchase before the end of the year, ”he said.

Zhumadilov explained that the status of the central purchasing authority, in particular, enables the Ministry of Health not to conduct a tender to determine the procurement organization, but to immediately receive the procurement service from the Ministry of Public Health.

" If he wants to receive such a service from anyone else, he must publicly purchase it.. The CPA status is needed so that customers can not purchase this procurement service on the market, but receive it from a certain organization, in this case, from us, "

Commenting on the transfer of centralized medical procurements from international organizations to the Ministry of Health, Zhumadilov noted that this process "

According to the head of the MLM, first of all, the state-owned enterprise "

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" They will procure themselves, and we will help them.. By then we will get the corresponding experience and perspective. There is one problem in decentralization: with decentralization, the factor of the scale and wholesale volume of purchases is lost. In centralized procurement, there is always a bargaining power that a large procurement volume provides. When the purchase simply goes through ProZorro, the distributors understand that they have the opportunity to set higher prices, "

According to Zhumadilov, MZU hopes that in its purchases the possibility of accelerated registration of purchased drugs, which now have international organizations, will remain.

At the same time, he emphasized that this will be a more stringent procedure than now, which will include checking not only the documentation, but also the preparations themselves..

" And it will be a real registration, not just checking the documentation, but checking the drug itself, "

Zhumadilov noted that MZU hopes for the expansion of the medical logistics market and the appearance of new participants on it. At the same time, he emphasized that if a decision is made on the need for a logistics service provider to have a GDP certificate (Good Distribution Practice), a transitional period will be envisaged that will allow the state-owned enterprises Ukrvaktsina and Ukrmedpostach, currently cooperating with international procurement organizations, to receive.

Zhumadilov also said that they are discussing the issue of the mechanisms for the transfer of medical institutions to departmental medical purchases, in particular, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice (prison service). At the same time, he noted that these departments buy some drugs, in particular, anti-tuberculosis drugs, more expensive than international organizations buy them..

However, Zhumadilov believes that at the present time it makes sense " As an example, he cited the purchase of a cancer drug with the active substance trastuzumab, which is used to treat breast cancer.

" But due to the fact that the drug is purchased through international organizations, this order is categorized as a priority request, "

As reported, in October, the Ministry of Health announced that it had initiated an appeal to the Ministry of Economy on granting the status of a central purchasing organization to the state-owned enterprise of MZU.

The Ministry of Health has registered MZU - a centralized medical procurement agency specializing in the procurement of medicines and medical devices, October 25, 2018.

The agency’s activities are supported by donor organizations, in particular the Global Fund through a grant from the Center for Public Health, USAID's Safe, Affordable, and Effective Medicines for Ukraine (SAFEMed) projects.

At the end of January 2019, the Ministry of Health organized the first tenders for the purchase of medicines under the Global Fund programs, in particular, for the purchase of logistics services and medicines against opportunistic infections and adverse reactions in the treatment of HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis, as well as medical respirators.

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