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The possible appointment of MP Valery Dubil as one of the heads of the parliamentary committee on health is aggravating the situation. Patient and anti-corruption organizations opposed it. Inna Ivanenko, Executive Director of Patients of Ukraine Foundation, tells the journalist on Channel 24 about the dangers of this appointment.
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Channel 24 has already written about corruption in medicine, which, according to patient organizations, accompanied the work of former Health Minister Raisa Bogatyreva. If an ex-official returned to Ukraine the other day (though she was detained immediately), some of her relatives not only left the country but also adapted well.
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In particular, it is Dmitry Podturkin. Most recently, he has been the Assistant Advisor to MP Valery Dubil, who is being promoted to the position of First Deputy Committee on Nation Health, Health Services and Health Insurance.
Who is Valery Dubil?
Peoples Deputy from Batkivshchyna Party. He graduated from the Medical School of Pryluky with a specialty of medical assistant-obstetrician and the Kiev University of Economics, majoring in Economics and Entrepreneurship. Since 2008 Member of Parliament of Ukraine.
The public learned about the possible appointment of the deputy Valery Dubil to the medical committee by the media and immediately started to sound alarm. After all, this committee considers all bills related to the development of medicine in our country.
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We are concerned about the possible appointment of Valery Dubil to this position, because he is associated with Dmitry Podturkin, who is his assistant, and was an adviser to Raisa Bogatyryova,
- Ivanenko believes.
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By the way, Raisa Bogatyryova recently returned to Ukraine and was detained by the National Police. According to Inna Ivanenko, a former official was detained because she was charged with criminal charges: she was accused of overpaying state funds when purchasing medicines and medical devices while she was holding a ministerial post. Its about a billion hryvnias.
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One of the top officials who, when appointed, will decide how the healthcare sector should evolve has an assistant who has been involved in corruption. This is obvious,
- notes Inna Ivanenko.
Free medicines still exist
Talking about Dmitry Pidurkin, the expert emphasizes that the public should be wary of the fact that he was an adviser to Raisa Bogatyreva. According to the head of the charity foundation, Dmitry Podturkin was involved in the process of purchasing drugs at the central level when Bogatyryova was a minister. It is for these purchases that a criminal case was opened against the ex-minister.
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Inna Ivanenko, says that at that time patients were unaware of the availability of free medicines purchased by the state in hospitals. The patients did not see the free medication: they were banal to ordinary citizens who needed it badly. After all, some of them were stolen at the highest level during purchases; According to patient organizations, the situation is now leveled and people have begun to receive free medication in hospitals.
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As for the court battles between the Patients of Ukraine FBiH and Dmitry Podturkin, there is already a Supreme Court ruling that proves that he was an adviser to the Minister of Health during Yanukovychs time and had an influence on tendering.
What was Dmitry Podturkin from the Patients of Ukraine Foundation suing for?
In 2016, Dmitry Podturkin appealed to the court for protection with a claim for protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The lawsuit, however, claimed that Oleksandra Ustinova, who was then a member of the board of NGO "Center for Combating Corruption", had distributed false information. The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kiev ordered the NGO "CPC" to refute false information. Subsequently, the Supreme Court, by its judgment of 29 August 2018, referred the case for reconsideration. And in 2019, the CPC won the case in court. |
