Skopje, 10 November 2023 (MIA) - The VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group submitted a proposal on Friday on amending the decision to set up an inquiry committee to look into the Oncology Clinic scandal, seeking to extend by 30 days the committee's mandate to hear testimonies from experts, as well as former and current public office holders. 

"So far, more than 50 people, former and current ministers and deputy ministers, directors, heads of departments, employees of competent institutions, including the Ministry of Health, the Health Insurance Fund, MALMED, the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate, and the Oncology Clinic, gave their testimonies before the inquiry committee. New and important facts and circumstances emerged for the inquiry committee in the process, which can contribute to finally establishing a violation of the constitutional and legal provisions, as a basis for determining political responsibility," said VMRO-DPMNE MP and committee chair Rashela Mizrahi.

In addition, she added, new findings were revealed about the Oncology Clinic case in the past days, from which it can be concluded that this is a matter of "grounds for suspicion of metastasized wild flesh in the health system and rule of the cancer mafia".

"These findings impose the need to further examine all new information and extend the committee's mandate in terms of summoning public office holders, heads of institutions and expand the scope of the period to which it refers, including the period from April 2023 to which the Health Insurance Fund report refers. Therefore, we submit this decision, which will give the inquiry committee an additional 30 days to call on other concerned institutions and experts," Mizrahi said. 

She urged the parliamentary majority and the opposition parties to back the proposal "if they really want the truth to come out".  

A new session of the inquiry committee is scheduled for Monday, November 13. 

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