The country is going to buy more cancer drugs with the money of the heroes.
Tenders have been given to those who can provide medicine at low cost
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Rs.3000, the medicine is Rs.31000.
5000 rupees medicine is 49000 rupees.
The Ministry of Health sources said that a medicine which was previously bought for three dollars has been recommended to be imported at a price of thirty one thousand rupees and the same medicine can be bought in the market for about three thousand rupees. Rupees forty nine thousand.
A guideline that is not mentioned in the Ministry of Health procurement guidelines has been presented for the first time related to these drugs and that guideline has been met and only one institution that has met the guideline has been recommended to offer tenders related to nineteen drugs and this time this guideline has been presented and more tenders have been received by that institution. The above sources also mentioned that it is based on the desire of giving. The value of the tenders recommended to be awarded to this institution alone is over ten crores of rupees.
There is a big gap between the prices offered by each organization for some types of drugs. The organization that has been recommended to get the most tenders has set a price of 49 thousand rupees for a drug, while another organization has priced it at a low price like 8 thousand five hundred and eighty four rupees. Such cases Number is mentioned in this recommendation.
Sources of the Ministry of Health said that out of the three hundred crore rupees given to the government by the Foreign Employment Bureau, about ten crore rupees will be used to buy these medicines.
Dr. Saman Rathnayake, Additional Secretary of the State Ministry of Health, who responded to a query we made in this regard, said that only recommendations have been made for tendering the list of medicines and the final decision on which recommendation is made will be taken by the Tender Board. The Additional Secretary said that the Tender Board is scheduled to meet this week.
(Source-Aruna newspaper)
