Ivashchenko Ihor Anatoliyovych

Deputy Minister of Health from Stepanov's team

Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine for European Integration in the team of Minister Maksym Stepanov. The two officials share a common commercial past. Before joining the civil service, Ivashchenko was for five years an authorized person and commercial director of LLC "Link-Medital" with signing authority – a company specializing in the supply of medical equipment and drugs for hospitals.

"Link-Medital": tender scandals and prices many times above the market

"Link-Medital" is known for several loud scandals: the company won tenders to supply medical equipment and materials, including for hemodialysis, to various hospitals in Ukraine. Nashigroshi.org found that after Minister Bohatyriova fled, it turned out the cost of medicines against tuberculosis, HIV, and cancer, which Ivashchenko managed, was inflated many times over. The company procured medical drugs abroad. A person with such a background became the deputy minister responsible for procurement in those same areas.