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    Samvel Alexanyan Revealed of Burden of Kickbacks

    The situation of procurement in the sphere of health has improved
    considerably, the minister of health Derenik Dumanyan told Lragir.am
    commenting on mismanagement revealed about a year ago.

    Almost a year has passed since the scandal of kickbacks but not a
    single person has been punished. The State Commission for Protection
    of Economic Competition has found out that 92 of 134 state medical
    institutions have infringed upon the legislation on state procurement
    and misused state funds. The requirement for tenders was altogether
    ignored, and the heads of medical institutions bought the necessary
    goods from their preferred vendors, and some kinds of medicine were
    bought at exaggerated prices. Most deals without tendering were with
    Natali Pharm which is owned by Member of Parliament Samvel Alexanyan.

    As to his opinion that people who misused public funds went with
    impunity, Minister Dumanyan said, `As far as I remember, no amounts
    were mentioned. And as far as I remember, those were not big sums for
    each medical institution. Had those amounts been big, they would have
    been arrested for sure.'

    Note that the SCPEC found that annual damage to the public budget was
    1.5 billion drams. He explained that the question why nobody has been
    dismissed should be asked to the relevant bodies. `Those medical
    institutions are under the mandate of the offices of governors or the
    City Hall of Yerevan. They are supposed to apply sanctions.'

    At the same time, Derenik Dumanyan assures that the heads of medical
    institutions do not misuse public budget now. He noted that special
    mechanisms have been worked out for the medical institutions as to how
    they must administer public procurement, and the ministry provides
    advice permanently.

    `After the revelations we analyzed the gaps and took these measures.
    For example, up to this year we bought one unit of insulin at 12,000
    dram, now we will buy at 3.30 dollars. We have a lot of savings which
    is all spent on ensuring 100% availability and procurement of new
    brands of medicine,' the minister said.

    16:01 02/11/2013
    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/country/view/31227

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