The Anti-Corruption Service provides assistance in escorting humanitarian cargo
The Anti-Corruption Service, together with the public, provides assistance in escorting humanitarian cargo arriving at the warehouses of SC-Pharmacy LLP in order to prevent theft and resale of incoming medicines and medical products.
Every week, Kazakhstan receives humanitarian aid from various countries to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Over the past 2 weeks, humanitarian aid has been accompanied in Kazakhstan from Russia (1,500 reagent kits, 414,775 medical products, 3,928 drug packages), WHO (1,800,300 medical products), China (850 984 medical products, 50,016 kits PCR test systems), Uzbekistan (4,008,800 pieces of medical devices), Turkey (297,916 pieces of medical devices, 2 PCR devices, 30,000 pieces of a PCR test kit, 30,000 kits for the isolation of viral nucleic acid, 10 000 packs of drugs, 29 artificial lung ventilation devices), Germany (813 packs of drugs, 1 002 units of MI), the Samruk-Kazyna Trust Social Projects Development Fund (3 000 units of drugs), Georgia (61 000 units of MI), Huawei Technologies Kazakhstan LLP (400 thermometers), Israel (350 protective suits).
The humanitarian cargo from WHO (Dubai) (117,820 pieces of medical devices), Qatar (523,823 pieces of medical products), the Czech Republic (2,704 pieces of medical devices, 10 pieces of oxygen condensers) was escorted to medical organizations.
A single distributor accepts all incoming humanitarian aid, in agreement with the Ministry of Health, forms an order, and ensures the transportation of goods coming from donors. Logistic procedures are carried out at the expense of the company.
The territorial divisions of the Anti-Corruption Service, together with representatives of Anticor’s project offices (members of the Special Monitoring Groups and the Adaldyk Alagy project), as well as volunteers of the Public Control Groups, supported by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Health, provide product escort to the end consumer in each region of the country.
Along with this, the employees of the Agency carry out preventive explanatory work with employees of health departments and medical institutions. The packages are stamped “Humanities kumek – TEGIN”, this approach minimizes the risks of resale of goods.
Also, on the recommendation of the Anti-Corruption Agency (Anti-Corruption Service), as part of an external analysis of corruption risks, on the official website of SK-Pharmacia LLP, a subsection was created for public monitoring of the distribution of humanitarian aid to all incoming humanitarian aid to Kazakhstan from different states in the context of the global coronavirus pandemic. infections.
So, at the present time on the site you can already find information about humanitarian aid: information on the receipt and distribution of humanitarian aid across the regions arriving in the country through SK-Pharmacy. All this information can be found at the link https://sk-pharmacy.kz/rus/narodnyy_kontrol/gumanitarnaya_pomosh/. The data in the section is updated on a daily basis.