KYIV. Aug 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – British Crown Agents plans to supply children and adult oncology medicines to the tune of $1 million by the end of September.
“By the end of September, we expect to have delivered a further US$ 1 million worth of items within the child and adult oncology programs, which constitutes over 84% of the medicines under the adult oncology program and 51% under the child oncology program, 80% of reagents and medical products of the total item volume and budget,” Crown Agents said in a press release.
Crown Agents reports that due to certain misunderstandings with regard to customs clearance of several deliveries by Ukrainian distributors, a number of deliveries for the child and adult oncology programs worth $5.1 dollars are still stuck at the customs terminal in Boryspil airport.
As of August 29, 2016, Crown Agents has supplied, in monetary terms, over 50.34% of medicines for the child oncology program, 80.3% of medicines within the centralized procurement program for adult oncology and 48.02% of the requested reagents.
Crown Agents also stated the saving of more than 45%, or UAH 500 million, in procurement of medicines on children and adult oncology programs for the funds of the 2015 national budget compared to purchases in 2014.
Crown Agents earlier said it was unable to additionally buy medicines at the expense of funds saved from previous tenders, as it was not stipulated in a contract with Ukraine’s Health Ministry.
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on August 23 issued resolution No. 560 on amendments to Cabinet resolution No. 787 from October 8, 2015, to allow specialized international organizations to purchase additional pharmaceuticals using funds saved from previous purchases.
