Due to alleged abuses in the Center for Forensic Medicine of the Clinical Center (KC), where the dressing of the deceased is charged in the amount of forty euros without issuing an invoice, last week a criminal complaint against managers and employees was submitted to the competent prosecutor's office...
In KC, however, they claim that this service is charged according to the price list only at the request of the family, with a mandatory invoice, that in the last year this service has been officially charged three times, and that all citizens who notice a possible irregularity should help that institution.
Last week, the Basic State Prosecutor's Office (ODT) in Podgorica received a criminal complaint against the director of the Center for Forensic Medicine. Žanke Cerović, her predecessor Miodrag Šoca, head nurse and mortuary employees.
The applicant states that, a year ago, families were charged 40 euros on two occasions for dressing the deceased, but no invoice was issued, and she asks the police and the prosecutor's office to examine the documentation and check with the citizens whether they had a similar experience in the morgue.
Also, it was stated that the families of the deceased who died from covid were also charged money. These alleged abuses, in connection with the sale of plastic bags in the morgue, were reported to the police and inspection by the KC administration in February of this year.
The ODT told "Vijesta" last week that the criminal complaint was filed in that prosecutor's office and that it will be recorded in the criminal register for known perpetrators and assigned to the state prosecutor, in accordance with the Rulebook on the internal operations of the State Prosecutor's Office. They also replied that the application is anonymous.
The KC replied to "Vijesta" that based on Article 42 of the "Law on Health Care and Health Insurance", "Official Gazette of the Republic of Montenegro" No. 39, dated June 9, 6, the Price List for the services of the Center for Pathology and forensic medicine, in which, under number 2004, there is also the service of dressing the deceased, the price of which is 22 euros.
"Dressing of the deceased is done exclusively at the request of family members, who, after completing it, receive an attached invoice showing the type of service performed with the price, and then pay the funds in the Accounting Department of the Clinical Center and receive an invoice for the service performed," the KC states.
They said that on weekdays after 15:XNUMX and on weekends it is not possible to pay or charge for this service, but the family receives documentation with a report on the services provided, which is subsequently paid during accounting office hours where the bill is issued.
"Nevertheless, we are also using this opportunity to appeal to all citizens to report any possible irregularity and help us to clean up any possible individual case of abuse. The service of dressing the deceased is rarely used in KC, and since the beginning of this year it has been used in three cases", they answered from KC.
The administration of this health care facility claims that they have no feedback on their earlier application due to suspicions regarding the charging of bereavement bags to the families of the victims of the coronavirus.
The Police Directorate and the Directorate for Inspection Affairs previously reported two cases in which, as is suspected, the families of those who died from covid were charged for bags, and they explained to the authorities that the material was provided by the institution.
KC said that on this occasion they made a statement at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, while previously a copy of the documentation was delivered to the police and inspection departments.
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