Thirty-two public hospitals in HCM City carried out their own bids for the first time last year, helping reduce shortages of medicine (Photo: tuoitre.vn)
HCM City (VNA) - Thirty-twopublic hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City carried out their own bids for the firsttime last year, helping reduce shortages of medicine.
The remaining 27hospitals in the city cannot carry out their own bids because they do not havea council of experts.
These hospitals will fixprices based on the 32 hospitals’ bidding results and then sign contracts withpharmaceutical companies.
At a press meeting lastweek, Pham Khanh Phong Lan, the Health Department’s deputy head, said thatalthough concentrated bidding carried out by the department had helped savecosts, there was no need for it because there was a large marketof pharmaceutical companies and hospitals in the city.
In concentrated bidding,only some companies win a contract, Lan said, adding that, in this case, thecompanies have problems in providing medicine.
The hospitals that carryout their own bids have more choices of medicine, she said.
To limit the differencebetween the price of medicine paid by the hospitals’ bidding councils, the cityPeople’s Committee allows only a 5 per cent difference.
The results of the firstbidding are expected in the first quarter.
Do Van Dung, head of thedepartment’s medicine management division, said at least 163 bidding packages,at a cost of nearly 9.5 trillion VND (416.7 million USD), were finalised thisyear. This represented an increase of nearly 400 billion VND compared to lastyear.
While waiting for thebidding results, hospitals are allowed to extend contracts with companies whichhad earlier won contracts in the concentrated bidding last year.
The Health Departmenthas asked for a list of medicine bids at hospitals to ensure proper treatmentguidelines and financing, giving priority to Vietnamese-made medicine.
In the city, theproportion of Vietnamese-manufactured medicine at hospitals is 48 percent onaverage. Grassroots-level health facilities have a higher proportion of 60 percent.-VNA
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Thirty-two public hospitals in HCM City carried out their own bids for the first time last year, helping reduce shortages of medicine (Photo: tuoitre.vn) 
