Some medicines procured by international organizations using budget funds were improperly distributed by clinics that received them, in particular, National Children's Specialized Hospital Okhmatdyt.

The co-founder of Tabletochki international charity foundation Iryna Lytovchenko told Interfax-Ukraine that when the Health Ministry's commission worked in the clinic early January it was established that in November 2016 around 900 Zivox packages were supplied to Okhmatdyt under the public procurement program – over 100% of the amount ordered by the clinic for the year.

"On November 15 the medicine arrived to the hospital's warehouse. Okhmatdyt ordered 600 packages. More packages were supplied, taking into account the needs of children from Donetsk region. A month later the foundation started receiving information that the medicine is absent at the warehouse of the clinic," she said.

Lytovchenko said that the commission unveiled that Chief of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Department of Okhmatdyt Oleh Ryzhak took around two thirds of the medicines for the needs of his department.

Lytovchenko said that Okhmatdyt receives medicines for the needs of all patients with cancer treated in the hospital: three departments with 70 beds, while the medicines arrive almost in the full amount to the Bone Marrow Transplantation Department with 10 beds.

The inspection of the hospital was started by the Health Ministry under a request of Tabletochki foundation and patients of the cancer center.

Lytovchenko said that according to the hospital's system the departments do not have fixed quotas for medicines. Nurses from departments go to the warehouse and takes as many medicines as they need at the moment.

"We caught them red-handed with Zivox. I think that there are more manipulations," she said.

Commenting the fact that some medicines supplied by international organizations do not meet needs of Ukrainian patients, in particular, medicines with Phosphomycinum and Methotrexatum active fractions, Lytovchenko said that experts who were members of working groups that formed the range of procurement mainly accuse international organizations.

As for procurement of Phosphomycinum with 3 gram dose instead of 2 grams, she said that the dose was procured due to technical mistake of the commission's secretary. All members of the group signed the list containing the wrong dose.

As for the medicine with Methotrexatum active fraction that was supplied in the wrong presentation form, she said that the medicine was procured from a new manufacturer, and the working group did not add the detailed requirement to the presentation form of the medicine to the technical specifications.

The Health Ministry said that the ministry intends to hold a tender to select chief doctor of National Children's Specialized Hospital Okhmatdyt.

In response to critics of Chief of the Pediatric Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Center Svitlana Donska about supplies of wrong forms of medicines, Ukrainian Health Minister Ulana Suprun said that Donska is a member of the expert commission that approves the list of medicines.

"Mrs. Donska signed the list of medicines, as she is a member of the expert commission. She decided what medicines to procure. If unnecessary medicines were bought, it is possible that she could be involved in this, as she selected them herself," Suprun said.