Ukraine's Health Ministry has signed contracts to procure medicines and medical products using the 2017 national budget funds with three international organizations.

Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday that the contracts for UAH 5.9 billion were signed with the organizations which have already taken part in public procurement – the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNICEF and Britain's Crown Agents.

Suprun said that 98% of medicines, vaccines and medical products have been procured using 2016 budget funds, and 57% of them have been delivered and 44% have been distributed among the regions.

"When we saw old procurement lists we saw out-of-date medicines and the wrong distribution of funds for medicines," she said.

Suprun also said that it is hard to compile information about the needs in medicines from the regions.