Healthcare

The private pharmacy Diva Medica from Goražde was not established in accordance with the regulations, yet it earns nearly BAM 1.5 million a year. At least half of...

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Issuing Medical Certificates Without Even Seeing Patients

The private health institution Medica issued almost two and a half thousand medical fitness certificates for driving licenses in a year without having the medical...

Fighting Bureaucrats for Children’s Lives

Children suffering from cystic fibrosis in Una-Sana Canton have been waiting for months for the Health Insurance Institute to approve expensive medicines. While...

The King of Poisons leaking from the Mostar landfill

Wastewater from the Mostar landfill contains a high concentration of arsenic, which could pollute the environment in the long run and cause serious diseases among...

Hospitals on Ventilators

Health care providers in BiH have at least 222 ventilators and another 160 are expected to arrive to help the medical system cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

Contingency Funds in the Fight Against Coronavirus

3.4.2020.

Some governmental authorities in BiH have already used up their contingency reserve funds in the fight against coronavirus. Last year they used money earmarked for...

Health Care Bartered for a Vote

15.11.2019.

Legislator Omer Škaljo cast the decisive vote to constitute the governing majority in Zenica-Doboj Canton. He was rewarded with the directorship of the Zenica Health...

Despite Millions for Health Care, Patients Still Suffer

29.12.2018.

More than ten million KM has been invested into the digitalization of health care in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet, patients in some public health...

Hazardous Waste Under the Feet of Tuzla Residents

22.6.2018.

For years, Tuzla chemical companies produced hazardous waste and never deposited them properly. These facilities have long been shut down, but waste, still capable...

Millions Invested in Exchange for Polluted Water

16.6.2018.

Equipment worth millions of KM at the Sarajevo landfill has broken down because of negligence and lack of cooperation among city departments. High water pollution...

Patients Shoulder the Cost of Lenses

9.3.2018.

Baroš Optic Shop let Sarajevo General Hospital use an instrument for eye surgeries with the agreement that the hospital would send patients to buy lenses from the...

Businessmen Donated to Hospitals, Then Profited

2.3.2018.

By donating sophisticated machinery, medical supplier traders insure they’ll became exclusive suppliers to hospitals.

Fees for Political Commissions

15.3.2017.

The Sarajevo Canton government has set up four commissions that have spent more than 250,000 KM from the budget of its Bureau of Health Insurance. The members were...

Faris Gavrankapetanović – His Own Supervisor

14.3.2017.

The former director of the Sarajevo Canton Health Insurance Bureau was a member of 10 commissions at the agency. These memberships added 2,000 KM a month or so to...

Expensive Inefficient Commissions

13.3.2017.

When Esed Radeljaš became chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sarajevo Health Insurance Bureau, the number of commissions tripled and members of those commissions...

Fund for Wastefulness

24.2.2017.

Former director of Zenica-Doboj Canton Health Care Fund, Senaid Begić, used the agency funds to pay for election campaign, advertising and purchase of awards.

Court Froze Houses in Bosnia, but the Arslanagićis Bought New Ones in the US

4.11.2016.

Family members of the former director general of Bosnalijek have spent 3.75 million KM over seven years on houses, flats, villas and companies, which is 1.05 million...