Leadership of Central MSEC and heads of relevant department of Ministry of Health have been dismissed, - Shmyhal
After the NSDC meeting on the situation with the MSEC, the leadership of the Central Medical and Social Expert Commission was dismissed and the heads of the relevant department of the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for coordinating the activities of the MSEC, were dismissed.
This was announced by the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Denys Shmyhal on Telegram, Censor.NET reports.
Shmyhal reminded that on Tuesday, October 22, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, which made a number of radical and at the same time very systemic decisions.
In particular, Shmyhal said that by the end of this year, the MSECs will be liquidated. Instead, a digital, transparent, European model will be introduced.
"I have instructed the Minister of Health to submit all the necessary regulations and bills to the Cabinet of Ministers no later than November 1 to complete the reform of the MSEC and the introduction of a new European model," the Prime Minister said.
The second decision made during the NSDC and already implemented by the Minister of Health is a series of dismissal orders.
"In particular, the leadership of the Central Medical and Social Expert Commission has been dismissed, and the heads of the specialized department of the Ministry of Health responsible for coordinating the activities of the MSEC have been dismissed," Shmyhal said.
And the third decision concerns the fact that unreasonable decisions on disability issued by the MSEC will be checked and reviewed, especially with regard to officials.
According to the Prime Minister, all inspections will be carried out within three months.
Corruption in the MSEC
On 5 October, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that the head of the State Medical Expertise Commission in the Khmelnytskyi region, Krupa, was found to have $6 million in cash during searches. Suspilne noted that it was Tetiana Krupa, who is a member of the Servant of the People party in the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council. Tetiana Krupa has been working as the Chief Medical Officer of the Regional Forensic Medical Examination Commission since 2008.
It was also reported that the head of the Khmelnytskyi regional centre of the MSEC was detained and notified of suspicion of illegal enrichment.
Currently, the SBI is studying the lists found in the office of the head of the Khmelnytskyi MSEC Krupa. They contain names and fictitious diagnoses.
On Monday, 7 October, the Pecherskyi District Court imposed a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention on the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional Medical Examiner's Office, Tetiana Krupa.
On 10 October, Oleksandr Krupa, the son of Tetiana Krupa, resigned at his own request from the post of head of the Pension Fund in Khmelnytskyi region.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has announced that it will conduct a second full check of the declaration of Tetiana Krupa, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Centre for Medical and Social Expertise.
On 16 October, the Editor-in-Chief of Censor.NET, Yurii Butusov, published information that 49 prosecutors of the Khmelnytskyi region, headed by the regional prosecutor Oliinik, had received disability by "covering up" the corruption scheme of the servant of the people Krupa in the MSEC and the Pension Fund. In particular, the journalist provided a list of the names of all prosecutors and described the criminal scheme used.
Censor.NET featured a story about the head of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor's Office, Shevtsova, who, at the age of 42, receives a pension of 785,000.
A list of 30 heads of regional prosecutor's offices who receive the largest pensions has also been published.
On October 22, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted the NSDC's decision to prepare draft laws on the liquidation of the MSEC.
