In response to ex-Health Minister and current SDSM leader Venko Filipce’s accusations, VMRO-DPMNE MP Rashela Mizrahi, who headed the Oncology Clinic Committee of Inquiry, has said he has shown he doesn’t know what the Health Protection Law says.
“Mr Filipce, reports from institutions submitted to the Health Ministry once every six months are according to Article 110 of the Health Protection Law. They are submitted by the institution directors. Expert commissions, Mr Filipce, are formed by the Minister. They are not at all related to the six-month reports, which, by the way, if you want to know, are according to Article 226-b.
Let me remind you, Mr Filipce, that the Minister performs supervision over health institutions. His direct responsibility follows this. Let me remind you also, Mr Filipce, since regarding the Committee, it’s as though you don’t remember anything, I want to ask you something directly: Was the only goal of your press-conference to shamelessly defend the profit of pharmaceutical wholesalers that have blackmailed health institutions for years?
Those are the same wholesalers that, through those blackmails, steal money from all citizens and put it in their own pockets”, she noted, adding that Filipce would not avoid accountability.
Also on Monday,the Minister of Health, Arben Taravari, said that the biological therapy matter would have been resolved by the end of the week.
In addition, the Health Insurance Fund’s Director, SasoKlekovski’ again stated that the issue would be solved through both donations and annexes to public procurement contracts. The Minister believes that decentralisation of the health sector is needed.
The Health Insurance Fund Director shares Taravari’s stand on that matter.