Today, 20 September 2018, law enforcement authorities are conducting investigative actions at the State Enterprise “State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” concerning the Register of Patients Requiring Insulin Therapy, which is administered by the Center, in connection with which there remains a threat of seizure of the Center’s servers and shutdown of the Register.
The Registry was developed pursuant to Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 05.03.2014 No. 73 “Issues of Implementing a Pilot Project on Introducing State Regulation of Prices for Insulin Products” and was successfully introduced in 2017. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, as of 1 September 2018, the Registry contains personal data of 1531 doctors, 187 575 patients who, over 8 months of 2018, received insulin products for a total amount of over UAH 655 million (http://moz.gov.ua/article/news/pravoohoronni-organi-provodjat-obshuki-v-derzhavnomu-ekspertnomu-centri-ta-namagajutsja-viluchiti-server-na-jakomu-sered-inshogo-rozmischeno-reestr-pacientiv-jaki-potrebujut-insulinoterapii).
Despite the investigative actions, the Center held a previously scheduled meeting of the Scientific and Technical Council, which produced recommendations for the re-registration of 27 medicinal products and 26 amendments to clinical study protocols, and adopted more than 150 other recommendations. Among them was a recommendation to extend the indications of an orphan medicinal product awaited by 12 patients in Ukraine with a rare oncological pathology that is incurable today without this medicinal product.
The Center remains responsible for the functions delegated to it by the state and is ready to facilitate better access for every Ukrainian to high-quality, effective and safe medicinal products.
