In Russia will appear a new Federal centre for the purchase of medicines
The government intends to establish a Federal centre for the purchase of medicinal products “Federal centre for lambasruchei” (Fcpi), write “Vedomosti”. The new center is scheduled to register later than 1st of July.
“Federal centre for lambasruchei” will the purchase of drugs for Federal programs for patients with HIV, some types of tuberculosis, with orphan diseases and Oncology. The center will be subordinate to the Ministry of health, its maintenance for three years is planned to allocate about 740 million rubles.
For Federal programs medicines is now provided by the Department of provision of medicines of the Ministry of health. Other purchases go through the regions. The center will allow to solve the question of how current procurement and emergency within the framework of pandemics, said the interlocutor of the edition.
Order to establish such a centre to the Ministry of health gave the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on October 2, 2018 December 2019, the Ministry of health launched a single digital platform for public procurement of medicines. It will allow us to avoid overstating the cost of procurement and eliminate unfair competition in the market, said the then Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova.