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SARAJEVO, April 12 (FENA) - The House of Peoples of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted at an extraordinary session the Bill on Financial Consolidation and Restructuring of Health Institutions, proposed by the FBiH Government.
The FBiH Assistant Minister of Health Marina Bera said at the end of last month, when this act was adopted in the House of Representatives, that this is a reform law by which the FBiH Government for the first time systematically supports the preservation and improvement of the health sector and actually promotes and establishes the entire socio-political order by taking responsibility for healthcare.
According to her, the Law should improve the financial stability of health care, which is a prerequisite for better and more accessible health services to the population in the Federation of BiH.
The implementation of this law will contribute to the financial stabilization of the health system in the Federation of BiH, especially clinical centers founded by the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, but also cantonal and general hospitals, especially after a two-year period of difficult work in the health sector that is still in force," stated Bera.
The Law on Financial Consolidation and Restructuring of Public Health Institutions in FBiH implies the allocation of 225 million KM from the FBiH budget in the next three years (since the law comes into force) to university-clinical and public cantonal and general hospitals.
During a heated debate in the House of Peoples today, several members of opposition parties or independent delegates said they were not against adequate health care, but that this law did not answer the question - according to which criteria is the money distributed to the public health institutions?
One of these delegates, Aljoša Čampara, objected that it was illogical that, for example, about 60 million KM will be allocated to the Clinical Hospital in Mostar, which is the same amount for the clinical centers in Sarajevo and Tuzla altogether, or that the General Hospital in Sarajevo would receive only two million KM, or the cantonal hospital in Goražde only 1.5 million KM, and for the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo the amount will be 30 million KM. The Sarajevo General Hospital was not originally intended to receive support under this law, but was 'subsequently added, Čampara warned.
Such distribution of money is done purely under political terms and is devised to reward the biggest losers among health institutions, in an agreement between the ruling Party of Democratic Action and the Croat Democratic Union in BiH. The law was not drafted according to the appropriate criteria, the analysis of the activities of the management which have led to losses in the operations of public health institutions, estimated at a total of 438 million KM.
The answer to the question was not offered either - how did the debts come about, said these delegates, among them Elmedin Konaković, Aljoša Čampara, Nijaz Musić and Vibor Handžić. Konaković also said that it is illogical that about 30 million KM is allocated to an institution that boasts of positive business results every year, and to some other hospitals far less money has been granted.
According to the debate that included the position parties, which was much smaller than the reports from the opposition benches, the debate on this kind of law should not have been politicized, which, according to the ruling parties, was done by the opposition today.
The FBiH government said it will form a special body to monitor whether the allocated money is being spent adequately.
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