{"id":11669,"date":"2013-09-27T13:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T18:15:53","slug":"patients-persuaded-the-moh-not-to-limit-the-list-of-medicines-for-hep-c-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/news\/patients-persuaded-the-moh-not-to-limit-the-list-of-medicines-for-hep-c-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients persuaded the MoH not to limit the list of medicines for Hep C tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/moz-build.jpg\" alt=\"moz build\" \/>There is\u00a0an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moz.gov.ua\/ua\/portal\/pre_20130926_1.html\">official information<\/a> at\u00a0the Ministry of\u00a0Health of\u00a0Ukraine web site about the list of\u00a0medicines that would be\u00a0procured at\u00a0the expense of\u00a0the state budget to\u00a0treat Hepatitis C\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine. According to\u00a0this information, the representatives of\u00a0the two largest producers of\u00a0drugs can apply for tender in\u00a0Ukraine, which ensures fair competition.<br \/>\nPlease note that earlier both manufacturers have publicly <a href=\"\/en\/news\/hepatitis-c-treatment-in-ukraine-will-be-reduced-by-half\/\">stated their willingness<\/a> to\u00a0cut down prices more than twice. It\u00a0means that twice more drugs will be\u00a0procured and more patients will receive treatment.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u00abWe\u00a0are glad that the Ministry of\u00a0Health heard the voice of\u00a0patients. The officials from the forecast commission from the very beginning planned to\u00a0adopt the tender documentation in\u00a0favor of\u00a0only one participant, but eventually refused from this idea,<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 states <strong>Olga Stephanyshyna<\/strong>, the executive director of\u00a0the patient organization <strong>UCAB<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/life.pravda.com.ua\/columns\/2013\/09\/19\/139180\/\">who was present at\u00a0one of\u00a0the meetings of\u00a0commission<\/a>,\u00a0\u2014 <em>We\u00a0would further monitor the tendering process, and our mission is\u00a0to\u00a0ensure fair and open tender and the timely delivery of\u00a0medicines to\u00a0hospitals.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0remind that on\u00a0September, 4, the Cabinet of\u00a0Ministers <a href=\"\/en\/news\/the-state-will-finance-the-hepatis-c-treatment-for-the-first-time-ever\/\">for the first time ever allocated the costs<\/a> for the procurement of\u00a0the medicines for Hepatitis C\u00a0treatment. And the very first tender with the budget of\u00a0UAH 33, 2\u00a0started with the scandal. Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/korrespondent.net\/tech\/health\/1604956-minzdrav-nameren-zarabotat-na-bolnyh-s-gepatitom-aktivisty\">NGOs announced<\/a> through mass media that the Ministry of\u00a0Health was going to\u00a0perform corrupted tender with only one participant mentioned in\u00a0the tender documentation. The Ministry reacted in\u00a0the ambiguous manner, by\u00a0posting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moz.gov.ua\/ua\/portal\/pre_20130919_0.html\">information on\u00a0the web site <\/a>that the tender will be\u00a0fair, however, they did not deny the intention to\u00a0promote only one participant to\u00a0the tender.<\/p>\n<p>But now, after the pressure from patients\u2019 organizations and civil society, the Ministry of\u00a0Health of\u00a0Ukraine published on\u00a0the web site<a href=\"http:\/\/moz.gov.ua\/ua\/portal\/pre_20130926_1.html\"> the information about both<\/a> medicines that are widely used in\u00a0the world to\u00a0cure Hepatitis C. The civil society is\u00a0hoping that the substantial reduce of\u00a0prices in\u00a0the state purchase program will force the producers to\u00a0mark down the retail prices for these medicines in\u00a0drug stores too. This will provide an\u00a0access to\u00a0treatment for common Ukrainians. Up\u00a0to\u00a0now the average price for annual treatment course was about UAH 100\u00a0000, while in\u00a0Egypt the price is\u00a0about UAH 16\u00a0000, or\u00a0USD 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Hepatitis C\u00a0is the most common epidemic in\u00a0Ukraine. Approximately\u00a03,5 million of\u00a0Ukrainians are infected with viral hepatitis. The disease is\u00a0dangerous because you can get infected in\u00a0the hospital when handling blood, at\u00a0a\u00a0dentists\u2019 and even in\u00a0the nail salon. Up\u00a0to\u00a0now, the average course of\u00a0hepatitis\u00a0C treatment in\u00a0Ukraine costed almost UAH 100,000. And the state in\u00a022\u00a0years of\u00a0independence has not allocated a\u00a0single hryvnya to\u00a0fight the epidemic. Now thanks to\u00a0the adoption of\u00a0the state program and bulk procurement of\u00a0drugs it\u00a0is\u00a0possible to\u00a0reduce the price of\u00a0drugs and make drugs more affordable for those patients who need them. For example, thanks to\u00a0the government\u2019s agreements with pharmaceutical companies, the treatment of\u00a0hepatitis\u00a0C in\u00a0Egypt costs $\u00a02,000, that is\u00a0ten times cheaper than in\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The activity is\u00a0conducted within the framework of\u00a0the <strong>Public Health Program<\/strong>, supported by\u00a0<strong>IRF<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is\u00a0an\u00a0official information at\u00a0the Ministry of\u00a0Health of\u00a0Ukraine web site about the list of\u00a0medicines that would be\u00a0procured at\u00a0the expense of\u00a0the state budget to\u00a0treat Hepatitis C\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine. According to\u00a0this information, the representatives of\u00a0the two largest producers of\u00a0drugs can apply for tender in\u00a0Ukraine, which ensures fair competition. Please note that earlier both manufacturers have publicly stated their willingness to\u00a0cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}