Persons with rare diseases have few resources for medical treatment in BiH. There are no specialists for their disease nor adequate drugs and supplements. Their treatment depends on finances at their disposal and their own resourcefulness.
The rate of childhood inoculation in BiH is on the decline and that is leading to increased risk of infectious diseases. Parents are opting not to inoculate their children to avoid complications and medical science offers no fool-proof guarantees.
BiH has no facilities to get rid of more than 100,000 animals killed in recent flooding and landslides.
The former director of the Sarajevo Clinical Center, Faris Gavrankapetanović, and his family have acquired property worth 2 million KM over the past decade.
Products which should be sold by prescription are routinely going over the counter in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pharmacies also are trading in products potentiall unsafe because they are illegally imported and unlicensed
Alerts about unsafe food in BiH can take days to translate into action. Authorities in the rest of Europe move within hours to get bad food off shelves and out of reach of citizens. Here, things move more slowly.
A significant outbreak of Salmonella last week in Tuzla could have affected fewer people had health institutions reacted faster. At least 224 people became sick
Smoking by health care professionals is one of the reasons why people in BiH have such high smoking rates and are quitting far less than the rest of Europe.
Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.
Cramped quarters, inadequent equipment, lack of oversight and standards means lab testing of food in BiH could be unreliable.
CIN tested some of the labs that test food and found variations.
Insuring hygienic, contaminant-free food in Bosnia and Herzegovina will require the following steps.
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