ZAGREB, Jan 27(Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Marijan Mlinaric in parliament on Tuesday refuted media claims regarding the re-organisation of his ministry, notably that the ministry would be organised in the same way as it had
been before 2000.
ZAGREB, Jan 27(Hina) - Croatian Interior Minister Marijan Mlinaric in
parliament on Tuesday refuted media claims regarding the
re-organisation of his ministry, notably that the ministry would be
organised in the same way as it had been before 2000.#L#
"The only change in the Ministry is that the Office for the Safety of
People and Property has been raised to the level of a department with
an assistant minister at its helm, everything else is the same,"
Mlinaric told MP Zdenka Babic Petricevic of the Croatian Democratic
Union (HDZ).
Health and Social Welfare Minister Andrija Hebrang said that the
health system would be organised in such a way that financial control
would be concentrated in one place so that competent bodies could
react in time in case of any wrongdoing.
He confirmed that the total debt of the health sector amounted to 7.3
billion kuna (EUR940 million). He added that his ministry came up with
that amount after requesting information from all institutions
individually, because the debt was not registered centrally.
Hebrang dismissed allegations regarding the freezing of a bid for
tenders for medical supplies and added that there was no fear that the
incumbent government would freeze any project launched by the former
authorities.
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