The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) intends to carry out public monitoring of delivery, availability, and use of medicines and medical products procured using budget funds at the local level.
According to documents posted on its website, the monitoring will be conducted in health care institutions of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Poltava, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions.
Its goal is to track efficiency in delivery and logistics of medicines purchased by UNDP for the Ministry of Health to appropriate healthcare facilities in the regions and to collect information on the availability of drugs for patients.
The monitoring should address the following topics: which medical institution in the regions received the medicines and in what quantity; concordance of medicines quantities ordered during the planning process and received; delivery time from the central warehouse to the regional/hospital warehouses; problems encountered during the delivery.
The UNDP said that the monitoring will also address the following topics: why patients could not get free medicine needed for treatment; timeliness of the receipt of the lifesaving medicines.
According to the documents, the project plans to provide grants to regional non-governmental organizations to monitor supply and distribution of drugs procured with the support of UNDP at the central level. UNDP will grant only one organization per region. UNDP will support only four applications from different regions of Ukraine.
The maximum amount of the application is up to UAH 125, 000 per grant. Duration of grants is three months from the date of signing the agreement.
Bids will be accepted until August 31, 2017. UNDP will provide a methodology and tools of the monitoring after signing the grant agreement.
