The Social Security Fund (CSS) called this afternoon for the online acquisition of 129 medications that were declared critically out of supply through Executive Decree 36 of March 24.
According to Enrique Lau Cortés, general director of the CSS, there are 130 medicines in critical shortage, but on the recommendation of Pharmacy and Drugs, one was eliminated, after a series of international reports that ranitidine is causing adverse effects.
“We have put it on pause until we have a final communication,” he said, explaining that the Proposals will be received on April 12 and suppliers must deliver within 15 business days counted from the notification that your quote has been selected. He assured that they will change the “there is no” for the “if there is medicine”.
Another piece of good news, highlighted Dr. Lau Cortés, is that some suppliers have been encouraged to deliver products that had been awarded for some time and had not reached our CSS warehouses.
For her part, the Lcda. Ana Patricia Cuestas, National Director of Purchasing, indicated that these online quotes have been published in the electronic portal “panamacompra” and the choice of documents to present with the proposals has been simplified based on the criteria of guaranteeing the security of the patients, so they should only attach:
