According to the decree posted yesterday on the Ministry of Health website, the hospitals should organize their own auctions to import drugs into the country.
"This decree I open for public debate and we will see if its accomplishment turns difficult then we will amend the decree so that we should concentrate on auctioning at the Unifarm level’ Raed Arafat said.
Arafat wanted to specify that the former Minister o Health Vasile Cepoi had drafted a lists of risk drugs that no longer existed on the market in Romania.
‘The cheap drugs list in risk of no longer existing on the Romanian market or which are no longer imported is also found in the draft decree posted on the website of the Ministry of Health. We have tried to identify these drugs, I am talking about those that no longer exist on the Romanian market or are at risk of disappearing from the market’, Arafat said.
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"Hospitals are really late in tendering for these drugs. That is the reason we envisage national auctions for these products. One solution would be through Unifarm, the company that organizes bids to import medications for special needs to hold auctions for all the needs at national level concerning these drugs so that they should be able to bring in bigger quantities and thus become more attractive for those selling the products’, the minister of Health stated.
"Even if the draft decree which requires hospitals to purchase by themselves cheap drugs is already posted on the ministry's website for public debate, we will consider whether it is best for the situation to remain as it is, or to concentrate on at the Unifarm level the procurement procedure organization and thus bring bigger quantities a once, " the minister said.
A draft decree posted on the website of the Ministry of Health requires hospitals to organize, within ten days after the entry into force of an order of the Ministry of Health (MoH), procurement procedures for medicines with increased risk of discontinuity in supply.
The draft decree includes a list of a hundred drugs of increased risk of discontinuance in the supply which the insured benefit through the health insurance system during hospitalization. Among the drugs on the list there are those for cancer patients, antibiotics and rabies vaccine.
The draft decree of the Ministry of Health is open for public debate until December 7.
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