Skopje, 10 June 2024 (MIA) – The State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (DKSK) approved the reports that the dismissals of the medical director of the Clinic for Toxicology and the director of the Clinic for Cardiology by Health Minister Ilir Demiri were groundless concluding that the minister broke the law on prevention of corruption and conflict of interest and the health protection law.

The electoral code was also breached since the directors were dismissed under decisions passed on May 14 and May 27 before the May 30 conclusion on the completion of the election of MPs, the anti-corruption commission said Monday at its sixth session adding it will initiate proceedings for the health minister to be held accountable.

The procedures for dismissing officials weren’t observed when doctor Danil Petrovski, the medical director of the Clinic for Toxicology, and Marjan Shokarovski, director of the Cardiology Clinic, which involve proposals for dismissal from the administrative boards to the health councils of these institutions. 

Anti-corruption commission member Cveta Ristovska said that the medical doctor was dismissed due to “negligent actions” and for not renewing the temporary contracts of 18 people engaged at the clinic.

Although the people having no employment contracts were banned from entering the clinic on April 30, she said, eleven health workers were still being registered in the electronic system.

An emergency inspection on May 23 concluded that contracts were concluded with 11 people, signed only by the organizational director, which was against the law on health protection. 

The anti-corruption commission also concluded that the director of the Cardilogy Clinic, Marjan Shokarovski was unlawfully dismissed on May 27.

The report was filled a day later on the basis of breach of the law on prevention of corruption and conflict of interest and the electoral code, because the minister signed the dismissal decision before May 30, when the parliamentary elections were declared over, said the head of the anti-corruption commission, Tatjana Dimitrovska at the session. 

The dismissal procedure in this case was also not administered in line with the law on health protection because it was not initiated by the administrative board, heard the session. 

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