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(Title) series of errors (they had even identified the “K” in a related publication) led a month later, the cancellation of the first international electronic tendering for the supply of cardiac equipment for hospitals . The cancellation of a contract for 24.000 36.000 stents and balloon, budgetary 69. 000.000 million, is a step back to recovery effort of the procurement system. Even if Re-announced by the Commission for Health Supplies (GCS) will take time, thus prolonging the uncertainty and confusion as to the rules of the game, anyway it is not clear.
The casual training of the first contest for which there had been much visibility (error invasive centers, budgets, standards) raises doubts whether the nine-member committee to supply the specific composition can manage all the competitions of the Ministry of Health. “The GCS could be play a role if he knew its purpose, as with the corresponding committees in Britain and France”, said the “K” experienced biomedical engineer. “There may, for example all hospitals to get the same cardiograph, it depends on the expertise of the unit. But can massive supplies of materials that are common for all ».
The president of the Panhellenic Federation of Employees in Public Hospitals (POEDIN) Stavros Koutsioumpelis stresses that the establishment of GCS, three years ago, did the virtually impossible competitions in hospitals. “We had even bread in the hospital of Rethymnon be authorized by the committee. In practice, however, the GCS could not work. Piled all the requests of hospitals for supplies, which eventually (because hospitals rely on urgency) were exosymvasiaka, continuing with the old prices and online assignments. The policy of each commission to be approved by the GCS is bureaucratic and essentially perpetuating the situation with the result that they get the prices and too many competitions to be essentially illegal. It took legislation to legalize all illegal fees. We must begin a bidding process for all types on the basis of prices prevailing in Europe ».
This time, after the agreement regulating the debts, there are such large gaps in hospitals, although some suppliers continue the embargo . Hospital between Piraeus, for example, a company refuses to give cotton gauze and passed for payment even though the debts and gradually repaid old debts. Since late competitions, hospitals go to ‘negotiate’ with sealed bids, a process that is perfectly legal because only allowed in emergencies and not as slow competitions. Also go to competitions were launched earlier specifications of materials from previous years that have not been revised, and launched new, single program under procurement.
«In my opinion, to rationalize the procurement system, we need to start scratch, “said the ‘K’ the commander of the Second DOE (Health Region) Piraeus, Athens and the Aegean West, Christina Papanikolaou. “All or part of a clinical director with responsibility should make the budget for the procurement of material required based protocols and with the assent of the scientific committees. For example, I find to be in a single program supplies huge amounts of supplies and haemostatic antisymfitikon for which there is no scientific evidence that they have an important use in surgery. It is also necessary to determine the role of each hospital and clinic. It can, for example, a surgeon at a hospital-health center wants to make laparoscopic surgery and laparoscopic set to order ».
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