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Respected, in the mentioned case, actions are being taken in order to make a final prosecutorial decision, reads the response of the SC Prosecutor's Office
Sebija Izetbegović: Numerous criminal charges have been filed. Archive
Can you tell us whether Sebija Izetbegović, Director General of KCUS, and heads of clinics Amela Katica-Mulalić and Nermin Granov ever testified in the Prosecutor's Office of SC, and after the investigation into the events in KCUS and numerous criminal charges for negligent treatment?
This question "Avaz" have been sending to the SC Prosecutor's Office for months, headed by Sabina Sarajlija. However, instead of a concrete answer, we have been receiving the same explanation from the Prosecutor's Office for months:
-Respected, in this case, actions are being taken in order to make a final prosecutorial decision. We are unable to provide more details at this stage of the proceedings.
In other words, the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor's Office has not questioned the key actors in the affair at the University of Sarajevo Clinical Center (KCUS) for almost seven months, which relates to a letter from the doctors of this medical institution and problems in treating Covid patients. This judicial institution, as it was officially announced, formed a case on April 5, which refers to a letter from a KCUS doctors about the use of imported Chinese ventilators in this clinical center and other problems in the functioning of the Covid department.
Prosecutors were at KCUS in April. Archive
Since then, testimonies have been given by 17 anesthesiologists who have signed a letter indicating that ACM 812A ventilators, imported from China by the company "Silver Raspberry", used in KCUS, cannot be used for a specific respiratory pathological condition Covid patients.
The SC Prosecutor's Office then began to investigate whether there were serious consequences for the health and lives of patients treated at the KCUS, as well as other problems in the functioning of the Covid department. However, four months ago, the SC Prosecutor's Office confirmed to us that Sebija Izetbegović, Director General of KCUS, and Amela Katica-Mulalić, Head of the Clinic for Anesthesiology of this health institution, did not give testimony.
To this day, the Prosecution persistently remains silent. Izetbegović and Katica-Mulalić, along with Nermin Granov, were the key persons who made decisions on the treatment of patients in the Covid wards, which was also pointed out in the letter by anesthesiologists. It is increasingly certain that Sebija Izetbegović will (not) go to the Prosecutor's Office. But the question is by whose decision.
Recently, three criminal charges were filed with the SC Prosecutor's Office against Izetbegović and Katica-Mulalić for negligence, as stated, in the treatment of patients Sead Palić and Atif Hota, who died in KCUS. These reports were filed by lawyer Damir Koldžo.
Members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) recently, according to the order of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, seized documentation on the treatment of all patients in the KCUS. The exemption of documentation lasted for almost four months. The question is what the SC Prosecutor's Office is waiting for with key actors. Especially since the doctors gave testimonies.
It is not yet known whether the complete documentation related to the allegations of family members that this health institution falsified the documentation of deceased patients with the aim of concealing the truth about the manner of their death was excluded from the KCUS. The question is why the SC Prosecutor's Office did not immediately remove all documentation from the Covid department on oxygen and installation problems in April. Only recently was the server with data on all patients excluded.
