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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
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