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DUI has reiterated its criticism of Health Minister Arben Taravari over the “inexplicable loss of children’s lives” at the Paediatric Diseases Clinic.
Additionally, according to the party, there is an intentional tendency to “marginalise and replace” medical personnel from the ethnic Albanian community with ethnic Macedonian medical staff, “as in the last case, with the Kumamoto Health Home”.
“These actions are not only undermining internal cohesion of health institutions, but they are also violating the quality of services offered to citizens. In the meantime, the Health Minister looks to be more engaged in tourist travels to Dubai and party activities, disregarding his obligations to citizens”, Ali Ahmeti’s party added.
In response, Taravari criticised DUI for “politicising” deaths, including the one of the five-year-old at the Clinic. Regarding the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate’s report on the case, he said he still hadn’t received the document[which was released several hours after his statement].
“I expect to get it today or tomorrow,” Taravari noted, adding that especially DUI was doing all it could to try to show that everything had been a disaster since the end of its term as a ruling political stakeholder.
Taravari also responded to the DUI-led European Front’s accusations, according to which the decision not to calculate the non-resident population will see the number of members of local councils reduced.
“We are not the ones that changed this law. It’s a law adopted by the European Front within the previous cabinet, when the census process was carried out. So, they should criticise themselves. If it was about a law we are adopting now, it would be legitimate for them to criticise us. However, this is a law adopted four-five years ago. So, they are the ones criticising it? I don’t know, this is madness,” the VLEN co-leader and Health Minister underlined.
