Today, the Government of the Republika Srpska instructed the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to, in cooperation with the Republic Administration for Inspection Affairs and the PHI University Clinical Center of RS, within 48 hours provide a laboratory authorized to test oxygen quality control, in order to obtain independent medical quality certification of oxygen used in this institution.
This conclusion was reached at the 4th thematic session of the entity government, at which information on the supply and use of oxygen in the University Clinical Center (UCC) of RS and hospitals in this entity was discussed.
The Government of the RS instructed the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the UCC RS to inform the Government about the performed quality control.
The mayor of Banja Luka, Drasko Stanivukovic, did not submit criminal charges against the former mayor, his associates and other officials of the Republika Srpska to the District Public Prosecutor’s Office today, as he announced earlier.
Stanivukovic told reporters in front of the Banja Luka District Public Prosecutor’s Office that it would not be too late if he submitted those criminal charges next week, and announced new ones because, as he said, he delivered oxygen to the University Clinical Center (UCC) of Republika Srpska by a company that has a license to import only technical and not medical oxygen ”.
He added that he had evidence that the oxygen was supplied by the company “TGT Tehnogas” from Laktasi, which “is not registered for the internal trade of medicines”.
“Medical oxygen is a medicine, but this company is not registered for the sale of medicines. This company does not have a permit to work with medical oxygen “, said Stanivukovic.
Stanivukovic also claims that the UCC paid 1.3 million BAM for the delivery of technical, not medical oxygen. He says that, according to the information he has, in this case, criminal acts were committed against human health, against official duty and against legal traffic, Srna news agency reports.
