Verwerker: The UN initiates the collection of oncological medicines in Mexico through months of abstinence problems

A protest against the use of chemotherapy, in August.
A protest against the use of chemotherapy, in August.DANIEL BECERRIL / Reuters

The purchase of the Mexican authorities is more than the antiquated vacancies. Holds the dose against the virus occupying the center of political news, the large public drug acquisition, at an estimated value of 100,000 millions of people, advances without receiving much attention. UNOPS, a United Nations agency specializing in logistics, has been working for a long time to integrate oncological pieces of more than 1,000 in two seminars, and these four will be presenting a presentation of the general tender for medicines. It is the great hope of the Federal Governor to deal with the chronic disaster. Without embarrassment, the pharmaceutical sector is alerted to the possibility of new problems for the summit through the retreats in the calendar and in the contracting firm.

Since July it has been announced that the UNOPS will carry out the bidding process, the purchase process will have a counterattack: only this year we will be able to add more than 2,000 million products to a health system that will benefit from these years periods of escasez. During the previous sex, the first steps of the public procurement of medicines took place between March and April of the previous year. This year, provided by the Federal Government Company, the agency will meet in August with a market survey to track the interests of participating companies.

The agency is an expert in public contracting processes and has signed off on the beneficiary lands. Sondeverbod, never organized one of this tamaño. The total value of the products and services contracted by the UNOPS in 2019 is of 1,100 million dollars, much lower than the figure of the Mexican contract.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considers, in all modes, that the agency guarantees transparency. “Offer the possibility of obtaining good quality medicines with great precision and without corruption. We will solve the problem of disaster “, declared during the announcement. The Federal Executive has shocked various vices with the pharmaceuticals, which have accused them of corruption. Various of the principal laboratories have been disqualified, having been involved in a legal battle.

Six months after the company, the collection of critical medicines, required and processed by an expedited procedure, had a very timely form. At the end of January, UNOPS submitted 741 pieces of oncology to the Institute of Health for Welfare (Insabi) this week will open 347, as information facilitated by the organization. It is only the first step to intend to solve a problem of months. The chemotherapy campaign for children with cancer has provoked a strong protest movement between the parents and has moved to Gobierno in an uncomfortable position.

Normalize the sumministro’s cadence will not be a day question. The packages received correspond to a single key or product type, out of a total of 36 oncologic keys in the list, and the Insabi has made it clear to hospitals. In addition, todavía hay contractor pendientes de firmar, explain to this diary fuentes of the organism and of pharmaceutical associations. The UN agency assures, however, that the rhythm will accelerate and prevent 56,000 pieces to be generated in the weekly proxies.

Apart from the critical medicines, the UNOPS accepts another step in the general tender. The agency will take over the general purchase of medicines and open the offers presented by the manufacturers to help them evaluate. For the curation material, the event will take place on the 12th of February. Both close a retrospective of three weeks in accordance with the forecast in the December plan, following the notifications received by the participating companies. Although the launch of this stage has put pressure on the agency and calms the dudas of the pharmaceuticals, the industry has been alerted to the impact of retreats on the rest of the process.

The contracting company will deliver between March and April finals and medicines will be available in May. Originally, the fecha was April. “UNOPS is committed to all possible efforts to anticipate the downturn if it can be done before April, but it will only take into account the times of the tenders, the evaluations and the production of the medicine”, explains the deputy director of the agency Giuse Mancinelli.

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The mexican pharmaceutical sector considers the proprietary times no son realistas. The contractor’s company and the entry of the product already have a month. Media, a late laboratory between three and four to manufacture a drug. “In a process of generic medicines, a pharmaceutical can not be tener stock because in Ghana it is better than the competitor and the prime material and the finished products ten caducidad ”, dice Rafael Gual, president of the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Pharmacéutica:“ Las dilaciones van en contra de un abasto oportuno ”.

“This calendar will be translated into desert keyboards”, coincides with Juan de Villafranca, executive director of the Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories. Ya antes de la firma con la UNOPS, el actual Gobierno había enfrentado deficults. In addition, for the second semester of 2019, organized by the Secretaries of Health and Welfare, 62% of the key clauses are offered without a warrant and no business.

In a meeting with the UNOPS last week, the first of the initiation of the process, the pharmaceutical industry exhibited its preoccupation with the calendar. No fue la unica inquietud. The associations in question will respond to the request that the tender be favored by the foreign manufacturers and advertised as a “piss piece”. The agency compromises to demand that the company’s extraneous parties make a compromise in order to ensure that it does not receive subsidies, according to De Villafranca.

While reselling the tender and to cover the first months, the sanitary authorities will have to recreate the increase in contracts from last year or the direct assessments, a practice that has increased with this Government and only increase it. The main health care institutions have their own acquisitions of oncology drugs and attention to diabetes. There is no hope for the UNOPS ”, doubles Enrique Martínez, director of Inefam, an analysis center.

The bidding for 2021 will take place at the initiative of the buyer that UNOPS will organize to cover the next three years, from 2022 to 2024. The calendar, much more distended, from an ideal scenario idea with the agency geen pudo contar este año. According to the estimates for the Triennial Acquisition, the market probe will be delivered in May and the adjudications in October, between three and four months before the actual purchase.

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