a minute agoThe Health Ministry purchased five times as expensive insulin
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Health Ministry has the 3.2m-euro tender for supply of analog insulin, though human insulin is priced at nearly five times cheaper. Hospitals of countries in the region buy more human insulin than analogs in order to save the state budget. Kosovo's Health Ministry is soon expected [...]
The Health Ministry has the 3.2m-euro tender for supply of analog insulin, though human insulin is priced at nearly five times cheaper. Hospitals of countries in the region buy more human insulin than analogs in order to save the state budget.
The Kosovo Health Ministry is soon expected to announce the 3.2m-euro tender winner for supply with analog insulin, which has a far higher price than human insulin, though it could be used for the same purpose.
analog institutions are five times more expensive than human insulin, which the ministry led by Ismaili Bridge is getting ready to buy through a tender.
Insulins are used to stabilise sugar in the human body, and many Kosovo patients face lack of sugar in public hospitals.
The price of analog insulin ranges from 5.3 euros to 9.7 euros per entity, while human ones of 1.8 to 2 euros per entity.
Based on research done by the newspaper “Voice”, it found that the Macedonian Health Ministry in tenders announced for this purpose 60 percent of insulin buys humans at cheap cost, while 40 percent analog.
