The previous composition of the Ministry of Health, headed by Jelena Borovinić Bojović, did not submit a plan for the implementation of the recommendations of the State Audit Institution in connection with the report on the management of money from donations during the pandemic, although they were obliged to do so by April 1.
The new minister, Dragoslav Šćekić, promised that the Ministry will do it very soon, probably by the beginning of next week, because the SAI report, he claims, must be approached seriously and responsibly.
Today, the Parliamentary Committee for Health, Labor and Social Welfare held a consultative hearing regarding the final report of the SAI on the audit of success, in which it was stated that the management of donations for the fight against the coronavirus was not sufficiently efficient and that it has not yet been determined what it is intended for 5,16 ,XNUMX million euros and which state authority is responsible for managing that money.
Šćekić assessed yesterday that these funds could have been used much earlier, and that they could have been time-bound if the authorities had no idea how to use them.
Senator Branislav Radulović explained that the Ministry did not submit an action plan for the implementation of the recommendations and clarified that all audit subjects are obliged to inform the SAI about the implementation of the recommendations by September 1 of this year. Among other things, he recalled the insufficiently clear legal framework for the formation of the former National Coordinating Body (NCT), which had funds from donations, and that the recommendations were also sent to the Prime Minister because the newly formed Council for the Suppression of the Coronavirus is operationally responsible for implementing systemic matters.
Previous heads of the NKT and ministers of finance and health were not invited to the consultative hearing, and the session was attended by the director of the Institute for Public Health (IJZ) Igor Galić, former head of the Crisis Medical Staff (KMŠ) Ranko Lazović and member of that body Nermin Abdić.
Lazović announced that he was not a member of the NKT, but the president of the staff who was in charge of managing the health system in the circumstances of the pandemic, and that it was not within their competence to deal with who donated what to the state, bought it and under what conditions.
He said that KMŠ worked without a cent of compensation and held 45 sessions, from which there are minutes.
"Everything we received from NKT is either in the health system or in the warehouse, and there is documentation for all of it. It is available to any state institution that is interested in it, our work was transparent," he said.
Abdić repeated that KMŠ had no influence on financial flows nor was it their task, as well as that the members of that body attended NKT sessions by invitation.
And the head of the board, Srđan Pavićević, assessed that the representatives of the health system, in charge of its organization, have nothing to do with finances, and that the fact that 5,16 million euros are in the bank, and only 24 percent of the funds have been spent, should be addressed.
Some MPs yesterday assessed that the procurements carried out by NKT should be investigated. Member of the board, DF MP Maja Vukićević said that it is more important than recommendations whether certain procurements, specifically ventilators, could have had an impact on the quality of health care, and that it should be determined who was responsible. The MP of the United Montenegro, Vladimir Dobričanin, said that he thought it was positive that the money was spent for the intended purpose, but that it was devastating that, for example, the state wholesale drug store received only 110.000 euros, and that it should be determined whether the ventilators purchased by NKT could harm to patients if they were used or were put out of use due to technical defects.
DPS MP Jevto Eraković said that all possible remarks about respirators cannot be attributed to health workers and explained that it was the anesthesiologists and anesthetists who assessed whether they fit the purpose.
"Do you think that a doctor or an anesthesiologist would allow to use a device that has any problem, there were technical errors and they did not want to allow a minimum of improvisation, they were serviced and returned to the health system," said Eraković.
He pointed out that the SAI report is concrete and with conclusions drawn by people who are the most expert in their field, but that there is a remark in the sense that the people who were the subject of the audit, i.e. managed the institutions during that period, should have given their comments and suggestions.
"I would divide this report into two segments - the first is how and why the funds from the donations were spent, and the second segment is what we will do with the funds that were not spent and let's see how it was planned in the previous period," he said.
Eraković said that in May 2020, the government made a decision that it would use the remaining funds from the NKT account to build a mental health clinic and a hematology center, and that it would not enter into interpretations as to why it was not done, as well as why even after two In XNUMX, no tender was announced for the construction of clinics for infectious diseases and dermatovenerology, even though the state received money for it from the European Union.
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