The Budget Monitoring of Psychiatric Institutions

Mental Health and Society has 3 sections:
* The Outpatient Daycare Center (that has a subsection: the Self Help Group)
* The Advocacy Center
* The Budget Monitoring of Psychiatric Institutions

Today I had a meeting with the third and learned that the Mandatory Public Health Insurance Fund controls the distribution/quantity/quality of drugs sold at the pharmacies through a Data Base that assures the transparency of the matter.

However the Mandatory Public Health Insurance Fund cannot control the 'import' of drugs. Kyrgyzstan does not produce drugs and therefore it imports from neighboring countries - and so many drugs are 'corruptly' imported, there is no trace of their origin, some are of bad quality and some have false certification.

When The Ministry of Health in Bishkek is proposed to discuss transparency at the level of import and distribution of drugs, they do not say they refuse to discuss, but strangely enough the subject ends up being avoided.