Pool procurement between MOH, six teaching hospitals, and a military hospital to collectively purchase, as a single buyer, 82 drugs from 2020 to 2022 had saved the government RM79.6 million, says an MOH official.
Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali claims the Ministry of Health’s 2021 budget is actually RM35.8 billion, comprising 11.1% of the overall federal budget, not RM31.9 billion.
The then-PH government announced during the tabling of Budget 2020 that MOH, the Defence Ministry, and the Education Ministry would engage in pool procurement for half a billion ringgit worth of medicines to generate savings from bulk purchase.