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The manager from Bohatyrieva returned to procurement at the Ministry of Health — she had purchased ambulances with 7-fold overpayment for equipment
Former head of the Department of State Targeted Programs and State Procurement of the Ministry of Health Halyna Dovhanchyn has had influence over the work of the Ministry of Health’s tender committee and the process of international drug procurement since the end of last year.
This is reported in a piece by Valeria Yehoshyna for the program “Skhemy.”
Under Raisa Bohatyrieva’s leadership, Dovhanchyn was one of those involved in the Ministry of Health’s procurements — she led the Department of State Targeted Programs and Procurement.
Halyna Dovhanchyn was one of those who led the Department of State Targeted Programs and Procurements in the Ministry of Health during Raisa Bohatyrieva’s tenure, who is now a subject of a criminal case concerning embezzlement of state budget funds. During the time Dovhanchyn managed procurements at the Ministry of Health, she was involved in a number of scandalous purchases. For example, the purchase of ambulances for a billion hryvnias at an inflated price. Or the purchase of medicines for cancer patients that in fact never took place. At that time Dovhanchyn, as one of those responsible for this area, assured that the tenders were “proceeding in the usual mode.”
In March, journalists recorded that Dovhanchyn often visits the central office of the Ministry of Health. According to former head of the Directorate of Strategic Planning and Eurointegration of the Ministry of Health Iryna Lytovchenko, Dovhanchyn is currently involved with the same tender committee and international procurements.
“Right now Halyna Dovhanchyn is making her corrections to the tender committee, as well as to the permanent working group that supports international procurements, she forms the list of the drugs that the state purchases at tenders,” Lytovchenko says. “And she is now removing people who joined the ministry during Ulana Suprun’s tenure, and reformatting, adding some other people there, in order to have direct influence on the auctions that will take place now.”
Dovhanchyn herself claims that she visits the Ministry of Health as the director of the state enterprise “New Life.” But this enterprise is subordinated to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
Among the visitors to the Ministry of Health in March during the announced quarantine, Skhemy journalists also recorded pharmaceutical businessmen. Among them were Oleksandr Chumak, Petro Bahriy, Ihor Salo with his son Volodymyr, and Dmytro Buriak.
From “Nashi Hroshi”
It was Halyna Dovhanchyn, as the relevant official at the end of 2013 year, who defended the market-based price for the purchase of ambulances totaling about a billion hryvnias. In 2014 year it was determined that the supplier selected by the Ministry of Health for the medical equipment for those ambulances, NVO “Praktyka,” had inflated the price sevenfold.
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