{"id":140365,"date":"2020-04-13T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=140365"},"modified":"2020-04-13T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:36:39","slug":"more-on-overpricing-in-government-procurement-for-medical-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/13\/more-on-overpricing-in-government-procurement-for-medical-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"More on overpricing in government procurement for medical supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Factorias-de-ropa-medica-N-Digital.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140397\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Roque Espaillat denounces that the local health authorities have purchased 180,000 medical waterproof coveralls for RD$3,211 pesos per unit. He said he had a quote from a top quality Chinese manufacturer that offers these for RD$750 per unit as of a quote dated 8 March 2020. Dr. Espaillat says the overpricing means the government is paying RD$400 million more than it should be. Espaillat says he has been doing business buying medical supplies in China and South Korea for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in N Digital, according to a breakdown of recent procurement for coronavirus supplies, the state acquired two lots of waterproof coveralls with 89,775 units, one for $279,931,000 pesos, and another for $280,000,87,000 pesos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also says that the government has purchased masks that were originally available for 60 cents to the US dollar and increased to US$2.50 for US$9 each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2020\/04\/12\/medico-denuncia-estado-compra-trajes-a-3100-pesos-y-muestra-cotizacion-de-unos-a-750-cada-uno\/\">N Digital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Roque Espaillat denounces that the local health authorities have purchased 180,000 medical waterproof coveralls for RD$3,211 pesos per unit. He said he had a quote from a top quality Chinese manufacturer that offers these for RD$750 per unit as of a quote dated 8 March 2020. Dr. Espaillat says the overpricing means the government &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/13\/more-on-overpricing-in-government-procurement-for-medical-supplies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140398,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140365\/revisions\/140398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}