Oleg Musiy. Combat Medic

The name of the scandalous ex-Minister of Health Oleg Musiy is well known to most Ukrainians. The people’s deputy of the 8th convocation was miserably expelled from the Cabinet of Ministers in October last year. However, Musiy was not particularly sad and soon won the parliamentary elections in the 124th majoritarian district in the Lviv region and immediately joined the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction. However, in July 2015, Oleg Stepanovich joined the People’s Control party, headed by Dmitry Dombrovsky. This in turn means that Musiy will be competing with his former political supporters in local elections in October.

Doctor-businessman from the 90s

Oleg Musiy comes from a village; he was born into a simple family of employees in the village of Perespa, Lviv region. Since 1983, the people’s deputy has been a member of the board of the Student Scientific Community named after. A. A. Kisel, while studying at the Kiev Medical Institute named after. Bogomolets. Musiy began his career in 1987 as a nurse in the intensive care unit of Kyiv Clinical Hospital No. 25. At the same time, he completed an internship in anesthesiology and resuscitation at the department of the Kyiv Medical Institute. During the collapse of the USSR, Oleg worked as an anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the department of rehabilitation treatment of the Research Institute of Neurosurgery. Then the young doctor did not even think about a political career.

During the “turbulent” 90s, Musiy got involved in the business section of Ukraine, among other things, he was deputy director for medical issues of the joint venture Adolis, as well as director of the joint venture for the production of medical equipment Viola.

In the mid-90s, in addition to business activities, Oleg Stepanovich became one of the founders of the All-Ukrainian Medical Society, which he headed for 11 years. From May 2005 to February 28, 2014 – Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. He was elected to this position four times in a row. In 2006, he became vice-president of the Ukrainian Medical-Legal Association.

Oleg Musiy was the coordinator of the Euromaidan medical service; he was part of the Euromaidan medical hundred. It was during the Ukrainian revolution that he gained popularity due to his personal participation in helping the wounded during protests in Kyiv. At the time of the appointment of the “government, Kamikaze”, in fact, was the only candidate for the post of head of the Ministry of Health. However, at the same time, a lot of incriminating materials appeared in the media incriminating Musiy of involvement in the disappearance of a huge amount of medicines that people sent to Maidan activists (According to various sources, the total amount of missing medicines amounted to more than 7 million UAH).

Claims against the newly appointed Minister of Health began almost from his first days in power. Despite promises to reduce drug prices by 30-40% by eliminating corruption schemes in their procurement, problems with the supply of drugs to the Ukrainian market have become even more problematic. The climax was the minister’s offer to wounded ATO soldiers to buy their own medicine. In mid-summer 2014, only 25% of imported drugs were brought to Ukraine, which were intended for patients who received them at the expense of the state (for patients with AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer). This was the official reason for the politician’s dismissal. However, the roots may lie much deeper than the specified cause.

Video with Musiya’s commentary on his dismissal:

“Dangerous” friends of Oleg Musiy

One of the close associates of ex-Minister of Health Oleg Musiy is businessman Nikolai Kuzma, who owns the companies “Ukrspetsmed”, “Ukrmed”, “Kievspetsresurs”, by the way, these companies won 90% of all tenders for the supply of medical equipment under the previous government. During the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, this businessman was engaged in the purchase of devices for irradiating cancerous tumors (By the way, developed countries have long abandoned this equipment due to low accuracy and poor technical qualities). Under Viktor Yanukovych, Kuzma also did not live in poverty, he was engaged in the supply of ambulances with money from the state budget (700 million, by the way). So these ambulances were never found, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is, of course, investigating the production, but Kuzma’s name is not there at all.

Another of Oleg Stepanovich’s business partners is Mikhail Pasechnik, who previously served as head of the State Lexic Service. Mikhail is also the owner of the Falbi pharmacy chain, which until recently was predicted to go bankrupt. Pasechnik himself denies the fact of owning the network, stating that he is only involved in its operational activities, as well as the settlement of financial debts. He got the position of head of the State Medical Service with the active assistance of Musiy, but when Oleg Stepanovich was removed, they also did not forget about him, and Mikhail lost his post after his comrade.

Rounding out the top three “partners” of Oleg Musiy is Vladimir Kurpita, the ex-head of the State Service for Combating HIV/AIDS and Other Socially Dangerous Diseases, whom Oleg Musiy also lobbied for before his resignation. Kurpita, like Pasechnik, left his position shortly after the resignation of their “protector”. Vladimir is also known to the public due to scandals as executive director of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV (PLHIV). This organization has repeatedly found itself at the epicenter of scandals. Public activists call the “All-Ukrainian Network of PLHIV” a pocket public organization used by Dmitry Sherembey to lobby for his own financial interests.

Today Oleg Musiy is in a difficult situation, since all his “wards” were removed from power; he left the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” in the hope of success in local elections as part of Dmitry Dombrovsky’s “People’s Control” party. In one of his interviews, Musiy stated that he no longer wants to be a minister, but he continues to stubbornly go to power using all his “business partners,” friends and political supporters, who are happy to take advantage of a well-promoted person.

Dmitry Samofalov, for SKELET-info