The manager called tenders to buy electricity, gas and drugs to supply these centrally to hospitals and other health care institutions. The GYEMSZI reduced gas prices by 14% for its institutions last year, as opposed to a 5.6% cut in 2012, the paper said.

As for procurements for drugs, the overall cost of drugs was reduced by 3 billion forints in two years. Hungarian hospitals in 2012-2013 had 384 billion forints (EUR 1.25bn) for material expenditure.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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