Scandal with sterilization center, Beqaj: The problem was transportation.

Periskopi

20 August 2023, 09:53(3 years ago)

Former Health Minister Ilir Beqaj reacted to the media after publishing the facts in the media that his name has been overlooked during the SPAK investigation. Beqaj stopped right at the scandal of the modern sterilization center, which if put to work, would cover the needs of the whole country without the concession of [...]

Former Health Minister Ilir Beqaj reacted to the media after publishing the facts in the media that his name has been overlooked during the SPAK investigation.

Beqaj stopped at exactly the scandal of the modern sterilization centre, which if hired, would cover the needs of the entire country without the 100m-euro concession.

According to a later audit of the State High Control, the public sterilization center was forecast to function at 96 million dollars a year, or nearly 5 times less, of the $58 million worth the concession company billed in 2016 for the same service.

But Beqaj says the problem was... the transportation of sterilized sets.

In September 2013, when I took over the post of minister, the decision that sterilization at QSUT would be carried out outside the operating halls had been taken for years. At the new hospital built in 2009 with consultations taken through the Council of Europe Bank, an environment was left on the ground floor to install a plant, while for several years a plant had been purchased. It wasn't inaugurated, because inaugurating means starting work. It had never been put to work, and in September 2013 the equipment had also been released from the safety period.

For contract implementation, the contractor has employed about 250 people, of which there are only 30 people at the QSUT plant. This proves that the contract takes on much more than operating the plant. But besides setting the plant to work, sterile instruments from the plant building to pediatric surgery were not envisioned in neurosurgeon, cardiosurgeon, oncological surgery, etc. That's where the QSUT is passed. Who would transport them and carry them without violating the sterility of surgical instruments. Who would turn them back to the plant to re sterilized.

Since it is said that the QSUT sterilization plant meets all of Albania's needs, who and what it says would transport sterilized instruments to Trauma Hospital, to each of the two maternity plants, to Shefqet Ndokuki Hospital. Who would bring them and bring them back to the plant to be sterilized again. The implementation of the contract results in only the QSUT used 935 containers for instruments, 22 mobile tables and 80 cabinets for depositing set containers near the deposits of every operator hall. All over the country are 3500 instrument containers, 53 mobile tables and 190 cabinets.

Since the sterilization plant is reportedly filling all of Albania's needs, who and what on which to transport sterilized instruments to the hospital in Durres, Fieri, Shkodra, Korca, Saranda, Vlora, Elbasan, etc. Who would bring them and bring them back to the plant to be sterilized again.

Who would afford this sterilization and transportation? Q SUT for all of Albania? How much did other hospitals have to pay for this service? Hospitals in Albania are not economic realities that provide services to other hospitals.

Therefore, a single operator was needed,” writes Beqaj.