Prosecutor Natasa Godzovska withdrew today from the case initiated against doctors and Healthcare Fund officials over the alleged delays in providing funding for the treatment of a critically ill girl. Godzovska did not clarify the reasons why she is withdrawing from the case, which will likely prompt a re-trial.
Tamara Dimovska from Veles died in 2015 aged 9, from the consequences of the severe spinal deformity she was born with. The opposition SDSM party quickly jumped on the case and used it in its on-going propaganda campaign against VMRO-DPMNE. They blamed then Healthcare Minister Nikola Todorov of delaying the procedure to provide the funding for treatment abroad, while the Fund and the Ministry insisted that the case was practically inoperable and that they were trying for the most prospective treatment option.
SDSM activists followed Todorov with signs declaring him “The Minister of Death” and macabre protests were held in front of the Ministry. Ultimately her grandfather tried to assassinate Todorov in 2017, as he was leaving the Ministry building after SDSM accomplished its goal and seized the Government. Other of the emotionally charged cases which SDSM was using in its propaganda campaign have also collapsed since then.
A total of 12 people are charged in the case, including doctors who sat on the committee that approves funding for treatment abroad. They all declared their innocence.
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