Ministry of Health regulates the procurement of medical equipment

Recently, the Ministry of Health issued the "Implementation Measures for the Management of Hospital Medical Equipment in the Budget Management Hospital of the Ministry of Health" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"). It is required that the budget management hospitals of the Ministry of Health in the future should use the government procurement law to procure medical equipment regardless of the source of funds used. 》Procedures for procurement.

The Measures require that hospitals purchase medical equipment in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the "Government Procurement Law." Hospitals that use various sources of funds to purchase, receive donations, and allocate medical equipment must all implement management in accordance with the Measures. Among them, the "Measures" require that hospitals should set up specialized medical equipment management offices to undertake the functions of planning, procurement, storage, maintenance, and quality control. Medical equipment use divisions must formulate a medical equipment purchase demand plan for undergraduate programs.

The "Measures" proposed that the state requires the implementation of centralized procurement of medical equipment, and must implement centralized procurement. For medical equipment that has not been subject to centralized procurement, it should be the first choice for open bidding.

In addition, the "Measures" also require that hospitals strengthen the management of technical files such as medical equipment procurement materials, including bidding documents, bid evaluation reports, procurement records, purchase contracts, copies of invoices, import product demonstration reports and approvals, and import product inspection records. Wait.