Kim wants to urgently appoint the director of the unprofitable regional enterprise Farmatsia without a competition

The Mykolaiv Regional Council, on the proposal of the head of the RMA Vitalii Kim, using the martial law, plans to appoint the director of the communal enterprise Farmatsia outside the competition, in addition to the chief doctors.

This is reported by NikVesti.

The relevant draft decision of the Mykolaiv Regional Council was published yesterday, December 11, on the official website. In the explanatory note, it is noted that the draft decision was prepared «in compliance with the resolution» of the head of Mykolaiv RMA Vitalii Kim from December 5.

It is planned to appoint Ryshkov Pavlo Volodymyrovych to the position of director of the enterprise.

According to YouControl, Pavlo Ryshkov was appointed acting director of KP Farmatsia on October 2, 2023. Prior to that, since January 2022, the enterprise was headed by Tetiana Didan.

A person with such a name and surname — Pavlo Volodymyrovych Ryshkov — is engaged in entrepreneurial activity and retail trade in medical and orthopedic goods in specialized stores. In 2020, Pavlo Ryshkov received a license to trade medicinal products at a pharmacy in Mykolaiv. There is no other information about this person in the public space.

It should be noted that according to Article 16 of the Law of Ukraine «Basics of the Legislation of Ukraine on Health Care», which, in particular, the developers of the draft decision refer to, it is noted that managers of state and communal health care institutions are appointed to the position by the authorized executive body of the owner of the institution health care on a competitive basis by concluding a contract with them for a period of three to five years.

In February 2022, it was reported that Farmatsia KP had a critical situation: the company had accumulated debts of 5 million hryvnias, and employees were being laid off en masse.

According to YouControl data, at the end of 2022, Farmatsia KP had payables in the amount of 12 million 565 thousand hryvnias. In particular, these are arrears for payment of salaries, settlements with the budget, goods and other current liabilities.

Earlier it was reported that the Mykolaiv Regional Council, taking advantage of the martial law, initiated the appointment of three heads of regional hospitals without competition.

We are talking, in particular, about acting the chief physician of the Mykolaiv Regional Children's Clinical Hospital Oleksandr Plitkin, who was searched a week ago by law enforcement officers in the case of misappropriation of property and forgery of documents. They are also planning to approve the acting the director of the regional blood transfusion station Valerii Chiniakov and the regional skin and venereology dispensary Iryna Maksymova. The Mykolaiv Regional Council is the initiator of the decision projects. In the explanatory note to the draft decisions, it is indicated that their purpose is «to regulate the appointment of the head of a communal non-commercial enterprise in the field of health care, which performs the most important function of organizing the provision of medical care in the conditions of martial law».

In August of this year, commenting on the statement of the State Bureau of Investigation about the exposure of a large-scale scheme for making money by issuing «false» medical certificates of unfitness for military service at the Mykolaiv Regional Center of Mental Health, the deputy head of the Mykolaiv RMA Yurii Hranaturov stated that the political responsibility for the «scheme» in hospitals should be carried out by the regional council, which appoints the heads of these institutions, and not by the regional health department.