Medical (non) equipping
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.
BH health system: an orchestra without a conductor
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.
Medicine on the other side of the law
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 completes first story
The Center for Investigative Reporting has published its first story on the state of health care in Bosnia. Titled “Health care on life support,” the series of eight stories looks at problems in the health care industry.
New Center opens
It is a centar dedicated to helping local journalists get the time, resources and independence to do comprehensive and accurate investigative journalism.
Health care in BiH is sick
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) takes a look at health care through the eyes of the people who give it and receive it.
Patients fight back as doctor convicted in bribe case
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.
Customs that have become crimes
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.