TIRANA, Sep 15 – After much discussion on how the health system should reform, new Health Minister Anila Godo accused her predecessor of buying 26 million Euros of expired medicines.
Godo said, further, that flagrant corruption had been uncovered in the issuing of tenders for the drugs, bringing the health system to its knees.
Albania’s main hospital is nearly paralyzed due to a lack of medicine for treating patients.
Currently, only the most urgent cases are treated. Also, no surgeries have been scheduled because of the lack of basic items, including anesthetics.
Godo told the parliamentary health commission she had asked the office of Internal Auditing in the Finance Ministry and the High State Auditing Office to probe the tenders of the ministry and main hospitals.
Godo, two months ago, replaced former health minister Nard Ndoka, the head of the Christian Democrats.
Albanian health involved in a scandal of expired medicine
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