The last 20 of the 100 ventilators a Bosnian company that runs a raspberry farm in the eastern town of Srebrenica procured from China after it won a government contract which prosecutors are currently investigating have arrived at the airport in Sarajevo but this time, there were no officials there to welcome the delivery.
Civil protection authorities in Bosnia’s semi-autonomous Federation (FBiH) region gave the 10.5 million Bosnian Mark (some 5.3 million Euro) contract to Srebrena Malina, a fruit processing company.
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The first shipment of 80 Chinese ventilators arrived in April, and soon after, media reports about the contract caused public outrage and prompted an investigation into the procurement procedure by police and prosecutors.
As part of the investigation, experts found that those ventilators “did not even meet the minimum characteristics necessary for the adequate treatment of patients in intensive care units, among which are Covid-19 patients.”
