Ukraine’s turn last month to Britain’s Crown Agents to buy coronavirus vaccines illustrates the difficulty in breaking ingrained traditions of drug profiteering at the Health Ministry

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Ukraine’s turn last month to Britain’s Crown Agents to buy coronavirus vaccines illustrates the difficulty in breaking ingrained traditions of drug profiteering at the Health Ministry

Ukraine’s turn last month to Britain’s Crown Agents to buy coronavirus vaccines illustrates the difficulty in breaking ingrained traditions of drug profiteering at the Health Ministry, Pavlo Kovtoniuk, Head of the Health Economics Center at the Kyiv School of Economics, writes in an Atlantic Council piece: “Ukraine signs vaccine deal, but delays highlight urgent need for healthcare reform.” Noting that Crown Agents temporarily procured drugs for Ukraine 2016-2018, Kovtoniuk, who was Deputy Health Minister at the time, wrote “For the second time in just over five years, the involvement of international partners was necessary to rescue Ukraine’s medical procurement processes from corruption.”

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