A health care system that can make its patients pray to die is caused by the same regional and political conflicts that affect so much of life in Bosnia Herzegovina, according to health officials. But the surprisingly low priority that public officials give health care system reform may have the most devastating effects on everyday life.
The lack of equipment and supplies in BiH hospitals and clinics, despite 987 million KM in spending last year, is an example of the waste and inefficiency that is bankrupting this country’s health care.
CIN’s team goes looking for the 987 million KM spent last year on BiH health care. Auditors and health officials say they cannot find it.
In one month of reporting, a team of nine journalists from CIN talked to doctors, patients and health care officials to find out how medical ethics had collapsed.
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) takes a look at health care through the eyes of the people who give it and receive it.
Dr. Zijad Lagumdžija of Sarajevo became the first doctor in BiH history to be convicted of soliciting bribes from his patients. While some of his colleagues deny there is any real problem with bribery, others think it is a harmful custom that should end. They agree that patients like the three who complained about Dr. Lagumdžija can make that happen.
BiH patients have been saying thanks with increasingly large sums of cash to their doctors but their doctors have not been saying “no thanks,” according to health officials and social experts.
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