Moving responsibility for veterinary border inspections from entities to state has not made for smooth inspections, and state auditors find faults with the State Veterinary Office as well.
Zoran Đerić, the new deputy director of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Food Safety Agency, is no vegetarian, but because he knows that big meat processing companies use
Delay in implementing big structural changes needed to ensure a safe food supply has put BiH behind other European countries, and consumers suffer as a result.
There’s no clear-cut, easy and safe way to dispose of food products that inspectors find to be contaminated or spoiled.
Low-grade cuts that many countries won’t import cross borders into BiH and end up on the dinner table.
Nearly half the food tested in a summer-time analysis by laboratory experts was found to be loaded with bacteria, including varieties that cause cramps, vomiting and diarrhea of food poisoning.
Unwashed hands, dirty counter tops and summer heat can turn food you eat every day into poison and a fractured, under-funded inspection system is not protecting you.
Elektrobosna once employed 3,000 workers and brought prosperity to Jajce. Workers felt taken care of when company managers paid for medical care. Now injured workers find they must pay for their own care.
One day before the Aličić family of Živinice were to leave on a trip to the seaside, their 6 ½-year-old daughter Alma complained of a headache and vomited. Instead of Orebić they ended up at the Communicable Disease Clinic in Tuzla terrified as doctors treated her for viral meningitis.
After years of lobbying for it, a medical expert believes a meeting to find solutions for BiH”s health system problems is finally about to take place.
Despite anethical collapse in the medical profession, and without the help of government, some doctors, nonetheless, continue to do what is right and fight hard for their patients.
Top health care official are all pointing at each other for responsibility for a bankrupt system. The answer is obvious to everyone but no one wants to give up enough power to make it happen.
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