The hospitals will have again the right to purchase drugs and medical devices directly from suppliers. The interim Cabinet approved relevant amendments to the current regulations, IPN reports.

The procedures were simplified. The hospitals will be obliged to inform the Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices about the signed contracts. The amendments provide for the diminution of penalties for the suppliers’ incapacity to provide the agreed quantities of goods, which until now represented 50% of the sum stipulated in the contract.

The health facilities earlier also had the right to buy medicines directly from the suppliers. But the crisis of drugs faced by some of the hospitals this spring made the Government to annul this right. The Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices took over the coordination process then.