Despite the fact that internal control did not prove any shortcomings in the work of Dr. Mirjana Bakić, she was dismissed from the position of director of the Clinic for Dermatovenerology without explanation, after the director of the Clinical Center of Montenegro Aleksandar Radović demanded by some of her colleagues through almost all media.
The KCCG did not answer questions from "Vijesti" about why Bakić was removed from her position this summer, what the commission found during the inspection, or why they recently refused mediation before the Agency for Peaceful Dispute Resolution.
Bakić told "Vijesti" that the claims of some colleagues that she acted contrary to medical ethics, appropriated the doctor's room and purchased unnecessary equipment proved to be untrue, and that Radović did not provide any explanation as to why he was removing her from the position of clinic director.
Internal control did not reveal any irregularities.
"I learned about the request for my removal from the position of director from the media in January 2025. The published texts do not contain information about the names of the doctors behind the request, which I believe was submitted with the sole reason to discredit me primarily as a man, a doctor and a manager," Bakić told "Vijesti".
He says that, however, all the allegations have proven to be false, as shown by the report of the Assistant Director for Quality Control, Dr. Ivana Curovic Soskic.
"I would like to emphasize that I received the request, which was submitted by a colleague of a dermatovenerologist, and the report after submitting a request for free access to information several months later. Therefore, no one from the KCCG administration sent me a letter or asked for a written statement, and the report of the internal control conducted was never made transparent, which from the very beginning indicates an unprofessional attitude and clear intent," Bakić emphasizes.
She says that the essence of the report regarding the examinations performed was that the number of examinations significantly increased in the period from 2021 to 2024, as well as the number of health services, and that there is no mention of the appropriation of work space, because based on the census of 11.02.2025. it was determined that four doctors use three doctors' rooms, and the remaining three doctors' rooms are empty, as is the room for the doctor on duty, so a redistribution can easily be made for the proper use of work space.
Bakić says that he is concerned by the fact that Radović, as the director of the KCCG, said that the laser cannot be used at the Clinic as a health service for patients, suggesting the price of the service, despite the fact that the service was defined by the Health Insurance Fund's price list back in 2015.
"As for the allegations of 'unscrupulous and unprofessional work', those remarks, if documented, should have been submitted to the medical director for review, and since there were none, of course, they were not submitted," says Dr. Bakić, adding that internal control also reported that no complaints were recorded to the Service for Quality Control of Healthcare Services of the Croatian Medical University of Montenegro about its work from any patient.
From all of this, she claims, it clearly follows that the complaints are unfounded, and the goal has been achieved, because she was sent an offer to conclude an annex to the employment contract on 04.07.2025, and she was assigned to the position of medical doctor specialist at the Clinic of Dermatology - Department of General Dermatovenerology.
She explains that she had to sign the annex, even though it did not contain any reason for dismissal, otherwise she would have received a decision to terminate her employment.
"In the proceedings before the Agency for Peaceful Dispute Resolution, the KCCG did not accept mediation, which clearly indicates their arbitrariness and illegal actions. The proceedings will continue before the Basic Court in Podgorica," Bakić emphasizes.
"The equipment was not purchased by me, but by the former management"
Bakić says that one of the unfounded accusations also related to the procurement of "inadequate" equipment at the Clinic, so the director of the KCCG asked her colleagues to provide him with data on medical equipment, without consulting her as the director. In February, she submitted to Radović the documentation that she had obtained independently, namely the development of the Main Project for the construction of the Clinic for Dermatovenerology and Infectious Diseases, signed in January 2018 by the then director, Dr. Milena Đurović, as well as the project of the construction company "Ing invest" with complete technical documentation and specifications of complete medical equipment made in January 2020.
She explains that she was appointed to the position of Director of the Clinic in February 2021.
He points out that the director of KCCG had a professional and moral obligation to transparently present the public procurement data for the aforementioned equipment, as well as to announce, based on the documentation, which of the KCCG employees made up the commission for the specification of the equipment that is now at the Clinic.
Ultimately, Bakić emphasizes, Radović could have clearly concluded that the equipment, if inadequate, should be returned to the EU with the explanation that we do not need it. Or, if it is necessary and adequate, to enable its application and the provision of necessary health services to the citizens of Montenegro.
Bakić also raises the issue of the fact that the laser, purchased as part of an EU-funded project, is not being used. He notes that official training was carried out, which was carried out protocolically and with the knowledge of management, and which, he claims, was boycotted by some colleagues. He claims that the fact that Radović, as the director of the KCCG, said that the laser cannot be used at the Clinic as a health service for patients, suggesting the price of the service, despite the fact that the service was defined by the Health Insurance Fund's price list back in 2015, is worrying.
Bakić: Unfounded and other remarks
Bakić concludes that another unfounded complaint from her colleagues is that she hid the systematization of jobs, because the systematization was done transparently for the first time, based on which the staff was increased and narrow specializations were announced for three doctors, of which two doctors in the fields of allergology and oncology earned the professional title of narrow specialists.
"When it comes to the request to increase the number of days of annual leave, it was also baselessly attributed to me, because this issue is not regulated by the manager, but by the Labor Law and other legal regulations," she says. She also points out that Radović did not give her consent when she was the director of the Clinic to be a guest of the public service at the official invitation of the editorial office.
Bakić, who is a doctor of medical sciences in the scientific fields of anatomy and dermatovenerology and a subspecialist in oncology, emphasizes that "despite tendentious constructions, she is proud of the significant improvement of the Clinic during her four-year mandate."
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