A “Procurement Cooperation Protocol” was signed with the Ministry of Health on 19.01.2018 and in order to provide the medical consumables, medicines and medical supplies needed by the Ministry of Health and its affiliated institutions and organizations in the execution of health services, the “Healthcare Products Market” application was launched. In this context, the supply of medicines and medical supplies needed by approximately 880 public hospitals continues to be supplied through the Healthcare Products Market system.

At the ceremony hosted by Gazi University on 05.03.2020, the “Procurement Cooperation Protocols” was signed between our Directorate General and 6 leading universities in Turkey. With the protocols, it is aimed to supply the medicines and medical supplies that are needed in the execution of the health services by the hospitals affiliated to the universities and which are the subject of the Healthcare Products Market, through the Directorate General of the State Supply Office.

Rector of Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Prof. Dr. Nuri Aydın, Rector of Çukurova University Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kibar, Rector of Ege University Prof. Dr. Necdet Budak, Gazi University Rector Prof. Dr. İbrahim Uslan, Rector of Hacettepe University Prof. Dr. A. Haluk Özen, Deputy Directors General of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Directorate General of Public Financial Management and Transformation, Celalettin Sıvacı and Ali Mercan Aydın, our Director General Mr. Mücahit Özdemir, our Deputy Director General Mr. İsmet Keskin and university and DMO officials participated in the ceremony in which the opening speech and moderation was made by Ankara University Rector Prof. Dr. Erkan İbiş.

Our Director General Mr. Mücahit Özdemir informed the participants about DMO procurement methods and Healthcare Products Market Application. Expressing that they want to include university hospitals in the scope and enable them to benefit from the system, Mr. Özdemir said; “Just as the protocol we have signed with the Ministry of Health, we made a protocol with our universities with almost the same content, such as the application of the service fee as 1%, the payment term being 90 days. Thus, we aim to meet the medical consumables, medicines and medical devices needs of the hospitals affiliated to our universities through our Directorate General. At this stage, the registration of our universities to the ‘Healthcare Products Market’ continues and the demands of our universities registered in the system have been received. We will be starting to meet these needs of our universities via electronic tenders that we will conclude in three days. Therefore, I would like to state that we are happy to open our ‘Healthcare Products Market’ application to the service of university hospitals.”

In addition, Özdemir stated that on March 9-10, 2020, with the receipt of requests for the medicine needs of approximately 24 generic codes of hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health and university hospitals, medicine purchases will be initiated and protocol studies with other universities to cooperate with are continuing. The ceremony, in which the questions of the universities about the system through which medicines and medical supplies will be purchased, were answered, ended with the signing of the Protocols.