Sunday, May 26, 2019

Health Ministry To Introduce E Procurement Procedure To Speed Up Purchasing Of Drugs And Medical Devices

Ministry Of Health has decided to
introduce E -procurement procedure to speed up purchasing of Drugs and Medical devices to the Government Hospitals.

Earlier it was taken 09 months to purchase Drugs and Medical devices to Government sector through the current procurement procedure which the Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne had  reduced to three months after assuming duties as Health Minister according to the Ministry.

Due to the E-Procurment  procedure that time period can be reduced further Ministey has stated .A group of Health Ministry officials is  due to  received a training in China regarding E procurement procedure before implementing it here.

Countries like India and Malaysia had been managed to minimise fraud and corruption occurred during purchasing Drugs and Medical Devices through the E-Procurement procedure Ministry has stressed .

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