Tag: healthcare
Macedonia 15.09.24 | 11:25

Numerous irregularities in the work of public healthcare institutions

The SDS-DUI Government devastated our healthcare as their officials were rigging procurement contracts, accuses VMRO-DPMNE in a statement, pointing to audits of the public healthcare system that are being conducted. Audits are showing numerous irregularities in the work of the public healthcare institutions,...
Macedonia 16.03.24 | 13:55

Macedonia needs a major healthcare reform to root out crime and corruption in the collapsing system, says Nikoloski

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski announced plans for major healthcare reform in the mandate of the next Government, after some major failures of the outgoing DUI – SDSM coalition. Nikoloski is expected to compete directly against former Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce, as both are...
Macedonia 28.02.24 | 21:35

Family of 12 year old Kara asks for donations to help treat her in Barcelona

Following the drama surrounding an injured young man whose treatment in Vienna was denied by the state Healthcare Fund, annother donation campaign is being shared with the public. 12 year old Kara from Skopje urgently needs support for treatment in Barcelona. The child is currently treated in Skopje,...
Macedonia 14.01.24 | 11:37

Each year, at least 100 citizens are forced to turn to the public for donations for their medical expenses

More than 100 citizens of Macedonia are forced to turn to the public and beg for money to cover basic medical needs every year, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party estimates. According to the party press release, the Healthcare Fund is not capable to cover the needs of the citizens, whether for immediate...
Macedonia 20.07.23 | 14:48

Diabetes patients will protests in front of the Healthcare Ministry

The association of patients with diabetes will hold a protest in front of the Healthcare Ministry tomorrow afternoon, to alert to the fact that they have been left without necessary medicine and testing strips for months. The time of lies is over. We have 150,000 patients, 45,000 of them on insulin....
Macedonia 09.07.23 | 17:26

“We need to make real and radical changes in the health system of the country”

Public healthcare is poorly organized, patients wait for diagnostic results for several weeks, the Government made a strategic mistake when it stopped the construction of the “Mother Teresa” Clinical Center, and young doctors are leaving the country. These are some of the remarks of participants...
Macedonia 18.06.23 | 22:17

VMRO-DPMNE holds round table on healthcare reform in Stip

VMRO-DPMNE held a round table in Stip, where party officials from the Healthcare Commission discussed reforms to the healthcare system that need to be introduced. The proposals including introducing new healthcare methods and making the system sustainable. Party official, doctor Sinisa Stojanovski, said...
Macedonia 25.03.23 | 09:28

VMRO-DPMNE: Kovacevski destroyed the healthcare, the mistakes of doctors in Macedonia are covered by the country and the government

The mistakes of the doctors in Macedonia are covered by the country and the government, says VMRO-DPMNE. People are dying, but Macedonian healthcare does not reveal the reasons, it only states. Kovacevski destroyed the healthcare system. From one minister who asked for applause, but did nothing but commissions...
Macedonia 25.02.23 | 10:45

Investing in infrastructure and personnel in healthcare will be a priority of the new VMRO-DPMNE government

A patient died of sepsis, she got infected during a routine operation in the Prilep hospital. A few more patients are infected. Blagojce from Bitola died while waiting for the cystic fibrosis “trikafta” drug. We talk about Macedonian healthcare in the 21st century with Dr. Igor Nikolov, chair...
Macedonia 18.02.23 | 19:27

Healthcare workers plan to go on a strike if they are not paid by Monday

Public healthcare workers plan to strike next week if they don’t receive their salaries by Monday. The healthcare system is in shambles after an apparent hacking attack that put its data system offline. It’s alleged that the hackers have encrypted the data and are demanding a large ransom...
Macedonia 29.10.22 | 09:27

EU warns about backsliding in the public healthcare sector in Macedonia

The latest EU progress report on Macedonia determines that the country has regressed in terms of healthcare. In a statement on this finding, the VMRO-DPMNE Healthcare Commission notes that this is the result of corruption in the public healthcare sector. The focus on the Government is obviously only...
Macedonia 03.04.22 | 19:10

Nikolov: Delayed new clinic and end to successful programs to train doctors abroad cost us lives during the pandemic

The SDSM led Government abandoned an already prepared project – to build a new clinic in the Mother Teresa complex in downtown Skopje – in exchange for a new, larger clinic outside of the city where work hasn’t even started yet. If we had this new clinic done, it could have helped greatly...
Macedonia 03.04.22 | 12:07

LIVE VIDEO: Debate on the state of the healthcare system in Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE is holding a round table today to discuss the state of healthcare in teh country. Doctors Risto Simeonov, Biljana Lozanovska, Milenko Kostov, Marija Jovanovska – Orceva and Igor Nikolov are the speakers at the conference. You can follow the debate live – http://  
Macedonia 31.01.22 | 12:41

Dysfunctional measures, failed system, hundreds of deaths… – the healthcare system led by Sali and Kovacevski is chaos

The healthcare system is in complete collapse, just in the past 24 hours in Macedonia 21 people lost their lives and 1,254 new COVID-19 cases were registered, said VMRO-DPMNE, adding that while the health authorities through social media are convincing who will be in the non-functional Commission for...
Macedonia 28.01.22 | 16:02

Healthcare Minister Sali says “no” to switching schools to online classes

Healthcare Minister Bekim Sali said that the school year will resume on Tuesday, with in-person classes for all elementary and high school students. This despite the huge new coronavirus wave that has swamped Macedonia. The opposition called for several additional weeks of online classes after the extended...
Macedonia 31.05.21 | 15:25

Vaccine shortage: first dose vaccinations rate drops to below 600 a day

The number of vaccines issued to first time recipients dropped to just 597 yesterday, as Macedonia is almost out of vaccines. The Healthcare Ministry, unsure in its future supplies, is keeping all vaccines needed for booster shots in reserve – a little over 10,792 citizens received the second dose...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 11:51

LIVE: Protest in front of the Healthcare Ministry

A protest rally is taking place in front of the Healthcare Ministry.  Called by the VMRO-DPMNE party, protesters are demanding accountability from Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce. Filipce was caught trying to insert a shell company from American Samoa in the procurement of vaccines from Sinopharm,...
Macedonia 09.12.20 | 09:30

VMRO-DPMNE: 100 days Government, 100 days debacle in healthcare

The largest opposition party VMRO DPMNE again demanded the resignation of the Minister of Health Venko Filipce due to, as it says, the debacle in healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic. 100 days government. 100 days Filipce Minister of Health. 100 days 1,400 died from Covid-19, many of whom could have...
Macedonia 17.11.20 | 09:37

Tasevski: Even an idiot has it clear, the healthcare is in deep coma, Filipce still says that everything is under control

Forty people died from the coronavirus. The winning team does not change. Filipce and Karadzovski, the best from Macedonia. Do not even think of resignations now that we are approaching the Titanic death toll, 1500 people. I do not see that wearing masks on the street helped, like your other measures....
Macedonia 09.11.20 | 11:17

Filipce’s “free healthcare” will bury us alive before the country joins the EU

A family waited for hours for the ambulance to come to their aid. For hours, the daughter watched her father, a diabetic and with a heart condition, struggling to breathe and panicking because he could not take a breath. One of them was his last. Filipce’s system under control: A man begging for...
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