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Macedonia 12.02.20 | 20:43

Healthcare Minister Filipce gave contracts worth 7 million EUR to a businessman tied to his family

A businessman who has received seven million EUR in contracts from the Healthcare Ministry under Minister Venko Filipce, has a direct link to his family, Alfa TV has reported. According to the television, businessman Goran Filipov has received his first contract with the Healthcare Ministry the day after...
Macedonia 04.02.20 | 17:51

Shipment of coronavirus testing kits arrives in Macedonia

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that a shipment of coronavirus testing kits has arrived to Macedonia today. Until now, the Ministry was planning to test any suspicious cases by sending the bloodwork to Nis in Serbia. Filipce added that there are 40.000 biohazard suits and masks available in case...
Macedonia 03.02.20 | 22:56

Adviser to Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce arrested on drug charges

A police patrol arrested an adviser to Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce on a drug charge in the Skopje city park. The police identified the arrested man only as G.G., but confirmed that he is employed in the Healthcare Ministry. The charge is for marijuana use.
Macedonia 27.01.20 | 10:05

Coronavirus checks introduced at the Skopje airport

Controls are introduced at the airport in Skopje for passengers arriving from Dubai and Istanbul, to investigate them for possibly carrying the coronavirus which has killed dozens of people in China. Medical teams will be tasked to examine in more detail any passengers who may appear to carry the virus....
Macedonia 20.01.20 | 12:27

Filiipce says time is not right for his plan to introduce private companies in the emergency response service

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce said that he is giving up for the time being on his plan to form a public – private partnership that would manage the emergency response teams. The proposal was widely criticized as another move that would direct public funds to politically linked companies as...
Macedonia 22.12.19 | 12:33

Minister Filipce was pressuring Kamcev to buy a large public hospital, Infomax reports

The Infomax news site reports that Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce was deeply and directly involved in the extortion attempts against businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev, which are now the focus of the major Racket trial. Kamcev named Filipce during his testimony, revealing that the Healthcare Minister...
Macedonia 06.12.19 | 14:35

Besides Zaev, Kamcev dropped the names of two of his ministers

Several members of the Zaev Government were named in the testimony of businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev. Kamcev said that he reported the extortion thatws being carried out against him by Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who told him to report the case to the prosecutors, but...
Macedonia 09.11.19 | 12:14

VMRO blames Healthcare Minister Filipce of manipulating with the flu vaccines

VMRO-DPMNE official Sinisa Stojanoski accused Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce of manipulating the contract to purchase flu shots. Vaccination was supposed to begin around October 20th, but it is being delayed for a second year in a row because of the lack of vaccines. Last year it began on November...
Macedonia 30.09.19 | 18:06

Zaev’s stands by his healthcare officials charged with corruption, reveals he is receiving and sharing intel from the prosecutors

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev officially confirmed that he was informed about the second major racketeering scandal to befall his Government. Zaev held a joint press conference with two of his top healthcare officials, Minister Venko Filipce and FZO fund director Den Doncev, and insisted that it was normal...
Macedonia 23.09.19 | 11:00

No prosecutors has been assigned to investigate the Venko Filipce – Den Doncev scandal

The OJO office of state prosecutors informs that they still haven’t given the case submitted by the lawyers of the Diamed dialysis provided to an acting prosecutor. The allegations are raised against two top Government officials, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce and the head of the FZO public...
Macedonia 10.09.19 | 20:38

Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children sue the healthcare and education ministers

An association of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children initiated a lawsuit in front of the Administrative Court against the order by healthcare and education ministers Venko Filipce and Arbr Ademi, who ban their children from attending public schools. The constitutional right of these children...
Macedonia 08.06.19 | 11:38

Healthcare Minister Filipce claims (some) specialists are already paid 100.000 denars per month (with overtime)

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce claims that the Government is close to fulfilling one of its most extravagant pre-election promises – to increase salaries in the healthcare system to 100.000 denars per month. Filipce said that, if you count the extra pay doctors receive for working overtime,...
Macedonia 07.06.19 | 22:42

Parents who refuse vaccination send a list of demands to Minister Filipce

Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children met with top Government officials including Prime Minister Zoran Zaev yesterday, and came out with a list of demands which they say would improve trust in the vaccination process. In a letter to Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, the parents demand that...
Macedonia 05.06.19 | 14:54

Healthcare Ministry attempts to improve cancer screening rates among women

Under two thirds of the 46.438 women who were invited to undergo their annual gynecological exam showed up. A total of 17.477, or 38 percent, did not under undergo the exam, the Healthcare Ministry informed. The Ministry is inviting women for regular check-ups, in order to better detect cancer and other...
Macedonia 12.04.19 | 11:31

Instead of tackling the measles outbreaks, Healthcare Minister Filipce is out campaigning for Pendarovski

While the number of measles cases is multiplying across the country among patients and hospital workers alike, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce is busy attending election rallies in favor of his SDSM party candidate Stevo Pendarovski. During the rallies, Filipce is politicizing the investments in the...
Macedonia 18.02.19 | 13:32

Even the Healthcare Minister’s father doesn’t trust the public system

Former Healthcare Minister Ilija Filipce, whose son Venko Filipce now holds the post, chose a private clinic for a heart stent treatment. Venko Filipce today defended the decision of his father to avoid the problem plagued public healthcare system he runs and to seek treatment in a private clinic, saying...
Macedonia 15.02.19 | 13:38

Four patients remain critical, doctors fighting to save a young woman’s leg

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce informed on Friday that four patients who survived the Karpalak bus crash on Wednesday remain in critical condition. Two of them have serious head injuries and are breathing through respirators. Two more turned to the worse overnight due to internal injuries, and were...
Macedonia 11.02.19 | 19:26

Mickoski: Zaev and Filipce’s incompetence in running the healthcare system is costing lives

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski called on Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce to resign after yet another fatality caused by the measles outbreak. Filipce eroded trust in the vaccination process with several disastrous public relations stunts, as well as by distributing vaccines who were past their...
Macedonia 10.02.19 | 15:57

Thirteen months old child dies from measles complications

A child aged 13 months died yesterday afternoon in the Skopje Mother Teresa Clinic after suffering from complications from smallpox. The child, from the city of Sveti Nikole, had suffered from earlier health complications as well, the Clinic informed. This is the second time a child has died during the...
Macedonia 05.02.19 | 16:40

After a delay of two years, Filipce chose the location for the new Skopje clinic

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce informed today that the new Skopje clinic center will be built in the western Gjorce Petrov suburb of the city. The clinic was supposed to be built as a major expansion wing of the existing Mother Teresa clinic in downtown Skopje, and work was about to begin after technical...
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