News in English     | 08.03.2021. 17:42 |

Novalić: We have formed a team that will procure up to 400,000 vaccines for FBiH

FENA Vanja Tolj

SARAJEVO, March 8 (FENA) - The Government of the Federation of BiH confirmed after today's emergency session that it has formed a team that will negotiate the procurement of Covid vaccines directly with the manufacturers on behalf of the Federation of BiH.

The Director of the FBiH Public Health Institute and a member of the Ministry's crisis staff, Dr. Davor Pehar, was elected president of the said Ad Hoc team.

The Prime Minister of the Federation of BiH, Fadil Novalić, stated at the press conference after the session that, after it became clear that the COVAX mechanism at the state level was not functioning, the Federation of BiH had to react in the procedure of the procurement of vaccines.

"We have sent a request to institutions and persons that we believe should be part of the Ad Hoc team, but also for their fast action. We have included the FBiH Parliament, three cantons with clinical centers and the Institute of Public Health. At a session in Mostar scheduled for March 11, this team should submit a proposal for a contract for the purchase of Covid vaccines, which will include the price, supplier, type of vaccine and quantity. We have decided that the amount cannot exceed 400,000 vaccines, because we are still expecting vaccines from COVAX and the European Union program. Also, the total cost for the vaccines cannot exceed 12 million KM," said Novalić.

As he said, the chairman of the team is Dr. Pehar, and the members are medical specialists in the FBiH Ministry of Health Sanja Čustović and Vesna Alagić, member of the Committee for Health of the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament Mirsad Kacila, Prof. Dr., Head of the office of the Prime Minister of the SC Sanja Škuletić-Malagić, Assistant Minister of Health and Protection Alma Kadić, epidemiology specialist Blaško Topalović from the Tuzla Canton and infectology specialist from the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Svjetlana Grgić.

Novalić also added that the procurement of vaccines should be done directly from suppliers or their representatives and that six companies in the FBiH have already applied for the job of procurement of vaccines.

(FENA) S. R.

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