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 the money comes from public budgets.
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 panel examine a single person.
Children suffering from cystic fibrosis in Una-Sana Canton have been waiting for months for the Health Insurance Institute to approve expensive medicines. While waiting for approval, the health condition of some has deteriorated and some have moved abroad.
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 the local population.
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.
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 emergency and unanticipated events to help out citizens’ associations, sport clubs, and for competitors on TV shows.
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 Care Insurance Fund after the vacancy procedure was altered in his favor.
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 care clinics are still waiting to see its benefits.
For years, Tuzla chemical companies produced hazardous waste and never deposited them properly. These facilities have long been shut down, but waste, still capable of causing illness and death, remains in the old complexes, within reach of iron pickers.
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 as a result has local residents worried about their health.
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 shop in return.
By donating sophisticated machinery, medical supplier traders insure they’ll became exclusive suppliers to hospitals.
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