Health ministry expands list of programs where UNDP buys medicines

18:18, 29.11.2016 1 min read

Ukraine's Health Ministry has expanded a list of programs for which the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will buy medicines.

Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun said on her Facebook page that the list of programs for UNDP would include orphan diseases, child hepatitis, TB tests and medicines for children with hemophilia A and B or Willebrand disease.

"We have added these four directions to the centralized procurement of medicines using 2016 budget funds and UNDP will help us," she wrote.

As reported, earlier it was planned that UNDP will buy medicines under 17 state-funded programs for $48.5 million using 2016 budget funds. UNDP held tenders under two programs and signed contracts saving $3 million (Hunter's syndrome and Gaucher disease).