Transparency International (TI) in Bosnia and Herzegovina asked Bosnia's Agency for Medicines and Medicinal Devices as well as healthcare authorities in the country's two entities to look into the activities of five contractors who were in unauthorised way supplying with oxygen public healthcare institutions.
According to TI BiH's statement, the state agency confirmed that five out of six companies that concluded contracts with public health institutions through public procurement calls in the past period do not have authorisation for medicines.
The association received an official confirmation from the Agency for Medicines that five out of a total of six companies that have concluded contracts with public health institutions through public procurement in the past period do not have marketing authorization for medicinal products.
Those companies include: TGT TEHNOGAS, ISTRABENZ PLINI d.o.o Breza, KRAS d.o.o Laktasi, TEHNOGAS Kakmuz i Milojevic Gilje Gas.
TI BiH said that these companies have been supplying with oxygen numerous healthcare institutions in the past period without an adequate license. According to the data available, among those institutions are the Clinical Centre of Republika Srpska, hospitals in the towns of Gradiska, Nevesinje, Sanski Most, Doboj, Zenica, Bijeljina, Trebinje, Prijedor, as well as numerous institutes and health centres.
Transparency International warned about this problem back in June this year, when they asked the state agency in question to initiate an inspection of the company that supplied the hospital in Trebinje and was not in the public register.
Only on Thursday, TI received an official letter from the agency, which previously appeared in the media, stating that the inspection determined that the technical gas was used for medical purposes, which endangered the health of patients.
“Therefore, it is especially worrying that the authorities ignored the warnings of the inspectors, and the reaction followed only after public pressure, but also the politicisation of the whole case. This is why Transparency International BiH calls on the authorities to investigate and sanction those responsible, without exception, and to ban the trade in medical oxygen to all companies that do not meet the conditions,” said TI BiH.
The statement added that the process should be done as soon as possible, without political interference and without inter-party settlements, and the authorities are obliged to use all legal possibilities to provide continuous supply to health care institutions.
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