Legal analysis: in 2019, the National Health and Health Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly issued the Measures for the Administration of Medical Consumables for Medical Institutions (for Trial Implementation), which provides for the restriction of the number of varieties of medical consumables in terms of gauge, and for the restriction of the number of supplying enterprises to medical consumables with the same or similar functions. Medical institutions purchasing medical equipment, should give full consideration to the cost of supporting the use of medical consumables. The procurement of medical consumables shall be carried out under the effective supervision of the relevant departments and implemented by at least two staff members. Medical institutions and relevant personnel shall not accept funding linked to the procurement of medical consumables, and shall not be allowed to illegally and privately use medical consumables procured without formal procurement procedures. At the same time, medical institutions are encouraged to jointly conduct selection and procurement.
Legal basis: the National Health and Health Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine "medical consumables for medical institutions (for trial implementation)"
Article XIII of the medical institutions should be included in the national or provincial and municipal medical consumables centralized purchasing directory from the selection of the organization's supply directory. Need to select from the centralized purchasing catalog, shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions.
Article XIV of the medical institutions should strengthen the supply directory involves the number of supply enterprises management, uniformly limited to the supply directory of the same or similar functions of medical supplies supply enterprises.
Article 31 The management of medical consumables out of the warehouse is the responsibility of the using department or division. The use of departments should be designated personnel responsible for the management of medical supplies, to ensure that the receipt of medical supplies varieties and specifications and the number of varieties to meet the needs of the work, but not the formation of backlogs, to ensure that medical supplies in the department or department of the safety and quality.