Private hospitals to hold public procurement, Parliament at first reading decided
He is now entering the agenda of parliament, as by the rules of the rules every first Wednesday of the month parliamentary groups offer the bills to be voted on. Initially, at today’s meeting, the proposal did not garner enough support – 87 votes in favor, three – against, and 50 – « abstained ». After the process of voting, motivated by the MP and co -chairman of « Yes, Bulgaria » Bozhidar Bozhanov, the bill was adopted with 98 votes in favor, six – against and 81 – « abstentions ». The proposal of the PP-DB supported « Revival », BSP, MRF of Dogan, Sword and « Grandency ». GERB (with the exception of 1 MP declared themselves against) and « there is such a people » voted with « abstentions » and five MPs from « DPS -New Home » of Peevski declared themselves against, another 8 – « abstained ». However, in order for the changes to come into force, it must also be supported at second reading.
The importers motivated their proposal with the argument that this would save about BGN 100 million a year from the budget of the health fund for medicines. Nadezhda Yordanova mentioned that journalistic investigations found that for the same medicinal product in a private hospital a 26 times higher price was paid than the one paid for the same medicine in a state or municipal hospital, in which a procedure was carried out under the Public Procurement Act.
This means that the NHIF funds thus drain and go not as intended
Hope Yordanova. PP-DB MP
According to her, 116 hospitals are private from a total of 341, or 34% of all medical establishments in the country, added Nadezhda Yordanova, who also said that the current European procurement legislation does not allow such an exception.
For a crushed stone and Bulgarian private hospitals with predominantly state revenue
In the beginning of January, in its analysis, the Institute of Market Economics stressed that this interpretation of the decision is wrong: « From the definition, it is in no way outline that it is permissible to narrow the definition of the term » public organization « , much less – by subtracting certain categories of contracting authorities from its scope. Is it permissible to exclude private hospitals from this scope« IPE said then.
