an hour ago20 euros in masks, 40 euros alcohol: Health ministry blames someone else for higher prices
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Two requests have so far been launched by the Ministry of Health in the Kosovo Police and the Kosovo Competition Authority, where they have sought to investigate the abuse of prices with the necessary equipment for protection from the Coronavirus. These letters provided by the Express newspaper reportedly found that there is a rise in the ground [...]
In a request the Express has secured, dated March 10th, MSH Secretary General Naim Bardiqi has asked Riza Shillova, director of the Kosovo Police Investigation Department and Valon Presreshi chairman of the AKK to investigate the case.
This letter says that the first emergency procurement activity due to abusive prices has cancelled activity, and the cause of the epidemiological situation has been forced to resume with urgency again.
“While MSH is obliged to start another regular procedure with short-terms, the cause of the immigration need for protection from the coronary and yet the same price is expected”, it says.
The ministry, led by Arben Vitita, says that following the initiative of procurement procedures, the offers of economic operators have been at abusive prices, which have exceeded the anticipated value.
According to the S.H.A. after market research, they have found that the current prices are offensive to the projected value.
A similar request was started by MSHA two months later, exactly on May 12. MSH Secretary Naim Bardiqi has asked Schillova and Prestreshi to continue investigating cases of award abuses, claiming this trend is still present.
From this institution, they claim that the offers of economic operators in some cases are continuing at abusive prices.
The issue is also discussed at yesterday's meeting of the Commission for Health and Social Goodness.
After the meeting, where Health Ministry Secretary Naim Bardzic, chairman of the commission, Albena Resiti, reported, asked the prosecution to launch investigations into allegations MP has shown of abuse in the MSH.
The other issue on this commission was the misuse of tenders at this time of pandemic. MPs showed their doubts about several illegal contracts from the Health Ministry, in time of the COVID-19” pandemic, she said.
They asked for an investigation yesterday even before the committee,
Bardiqi is said to have called for an 8m-euro tender to be cancelled as a result of the abuses in which the increase in safeguard clause prices is envisioned.
According to him, their value in 2019 has been 1.40 euros, while during the pandemic masks are behind the value of 20 euros and alcohol 40 euros. He said police have reported that these economic operators have the right to increase prices because there is no law sanctioning them.
