/ world today news/ Sometimes I perhaps regret a little that I am not in the opposition, because the opposition perhaps has the freedom not to stick to the facts. This was said by the Minister of Health, Petar Moskov.
The minister made this admission after the cabinet meeting in response to a question about whether there are new signals of draining the NHIF after the cases in Shumen and Plovdiv. “I’m sorry. I sometimes perhaps regret a little that I am not in the opposition, because the opposition perhaps has the freedom not to stick to the facts. I regret that part of the opposition has been actively using this right recently, both in the cases with the head of the DAI, and in the cases with the Children’s Fund, and in other cases. The fact that I, Ivaylo Moskovski or other ministers cannot appear before you and tell everything that the respective specialized bodies have taken is no reason to speculate. If we want real control, real anti-corruption actions, and that at the top of the state, we must be sympathetic to this process, right – and not criticize it,” he said.
The change of the head of the Fund itself was not hasty. “I had absolutely no choice but to replace him the same day after he and his colleagues were charged with organized crime. My task in this case was, and I think we succeeded – to guarantee the work of the fund and that no child in need of treatment, either more urgently or in a more planned manner, could compromise this process. Therefore, the fund had to have a new director and he had to be appointed as quickly as possible. Because you saw the very next day there was a meeting of the public council of the fund, documents were accepted for the treatment of 15 children. That is, this is a process that cannot and should not stop, and this is my commitment as Minister of Health”, he said.
As to whether Moscow himself is internally convinced that this is an organized crime group, he said that the people who made this accusation must be internally convinced of that and referred the demand for those answers from them. “The Ministry of Health cannot exercise control over the public council because it is appointed by a ministerial council. Let me say the following: There is a report by the Ministry’s Inspectorate, which was sent three months ago to the prosecutor’s office. Whether this is also part of the reasons why the prosecutor’s office and the GDBOP caused these actions, I cannot say and I cannot comment even if I know”, this is how the Minister of Health answered a question about whether he did not know what it was about and whether the Ministry of Health did not exercises no control over the public council, over the Fund.
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