For clinical needs and platform without online trading products or can not be purchased according to the platform of the established price, allowing public medical institutions in the previous year within the limit of 1 percent of the amount of settlement of medicines, and enterprises in accordance with the principle of fairness in negotiating the purchase price, through the provincial procurement platform of drugs and equipment procurement on their own.
Before the implementation of centralized purchasing of medicines, hospitals have been purchasing medicines on their own, and then in order to better control the price of medicines in hospitals, the state began to gradually implement centralized purchasing of medicines.