Health Insurance Fund denied the claims of the Ministry of Health, managed by Dr. Budimir Šegrt, that the director of the Fund, as a signatory to the contract with private pharmacies, in accordance with the contract and contractual obligations terminated the contract, independently, with full responsibility and the right to decide, and that the Ministry of Health was not a signatory to the contract and could not influence that, nor was it intended.
"At a meeting held at the initiative of the Minister of Health, in September of this year, a recommendation was made by the Ministry of Health to enter into the procedure for terminating the contract with private pharmacies, about which there is an official note," the Fund's response states.
The Ministry told "News" that "the Ministry of Health is not a signatory to the contract and could not influence it, nor did it have the intention, because according to the signed contract, we do not have the right to do so, and as always we insist on respecting the law", they pointed out from Ministries
On the other hand, although they had major systemic problems to implement the Government's conclusion and contract the issuance of prescription drugs with private pharmacies, as stated in the response, the Fund considered that "the goal of the project has been achieved, i.e. that greater availability of drugs to citizens has been achieved, and were of the opinion that the contract would remain in force until the end of the year, by which time it was concluded".
"For this reason, a session of the Fund's Board of Directors, as a higher management body, was convened, where the position of representatives of the Ministry of Health to terminate the contract with private pharmacies was explicitly stated, which was supported by the other members present, of which there is an audio recording and minutes from the session ", announced from the Fund.
Accordingly, the director of the Fund (Kenan Hrapović), "respecting the decisions of his management body, although he clearly announced at the meeting that he was against such a decision, initiated the procedure for terminating the contract, in accordance with its provisions".
"The Health Insurance Fund is an independent management body that makes its decisions respecting the guidelines of the Government's policy. And it will always, as before, indicate and give recommendations that the decisions made regarding the health insurance system are improved and respected in the most optimal way, and all in order to protect the interests of its policyholders," the response states.
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