Public-private partnership in health

The Ministry of Health, with the assistance of the International Finance Corporation that is part of the World Bank Group, has worked out the legal framework for regulating the first public-private partnership in the area of radiology and diagnosis services, Info-Prim Neo reports. Under the bill drafted by the Ministry of Health, which was approved by the Government, the private partner will be selected in two stages. There will be presented a technical and then financial offer. The bidders can be legal entities, private individuals and resident and nonresident associations. If the winner of the tender contest is not a resident of Moldova, it will have to set up a commercial organization for implementing the public-private partnership and to register it in Moldova. The services within the first public-private partnership in health will be provided by the National Clinical Hospital situated at 29 Nicolae Testemitanu St. According to Minister of Health Vladimir Hotineanu, the private partner will have to invest €3 – 3.5 millions. The operational costs of a private supplier are assessed at €200,000, while the value of the contract with the mandatory health insurance funds – at about €500,000 a year. The Ministry of Health was empowered to select the private partner and sign the contract with it.