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    Mediamax, Armenia
    Oct 5 2012


    Medical institutions bought medicines at three times higher prices


    Yerevan/Mediamax/. A number of hospitals bought medicines from
    companies producing, importing and selling medicines without a tender.


    Presenting the results of studies carried out in this sphere, Chief
    Expert of the Analytical Department of the State Committee for the
    Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC) of Armenia, Manuk
    Mikaelyan, said that it was up to medical institutions to decide from
    where to buy medicines and they bought them even at three times higher
    prices, Mediamax reports.

    According to him, the market price for `Amloditin', which has a vital
    social importance, makes AMD 850, however the hospitals bought it for
    AMD 4800.

    The expert noted that Shirak, Lori and Yerevan are on the first three
    places by the number of violations. He went on adding that the medical
    institutions cooperated with specific drugstores, sending their
    patients there. Thus, over AMD 1.5bln damage has been caused to the
    state budget.

    According to SCPEC decision, the facts on the embezzlement of public
    funds and abuse will be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office.


    From: Baghdasarian
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