Health Ministry alerts: Regular drug supply from the Esential List at risk

The Ministry of Health has reported on the situation in terms of supplies of medicines and spending material in the public sector, respectively, in primary health care supplied by the ministry and special programmes. The budget reserved for the MSh's pharmaceutical programme dedicated to providing health institutions with medicine and saving material from the List [...]
The budget reserved for the MSh's pharmaceutical programme dedicated to supply health institutions with medicines and save material from the 2021 Essencial List is 5,55,000 euros, while the 2020 one was 11,476,913.90 euros.
A total of 282 articles from which 206 are drugs, while 76 saving material are reported.
“The current number of contracts signed for drugs is 24, or put to percentage 11.65 %.
The current number of contracts signed for rescue material is 12 or expression in percentage 15.79 %.
The number of articles the Ministry of Health currently has available is 109, or expressed in percentage 38.6 %.
According to this, the stability of the articles that MS has available (109) for many articles is no bigger than six months (will be spent within this period).
Based on this data, it is estimated that the continuation of the regular supply of drugs and spending material from the Essencial List this year is seriously endangered.
The MS is fully committed to improving this situation through concrete actions, and, following detailed analysis of the reasons that have created this situation, I will take concrete steps to ensure the sustainable supply of primary health institutions ( QKMFs, with the necessary articles from the Essential List of Bars”, says the announcement.











