{"id":5834,"date":"2020-05-12T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:28:42","slug":"bosnian-official-suspended-amid-probe-into-import-of-defective-ventilators-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":"Bosnian official suspended amid probe into import of defective ventilators &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fahrudin Solak, head of the civil protection authority (FUCZ) in the Federation of BiH, was suspended Tuesday\u00a0amid a criminal inquiry into the import of ventilators for\u00a0coronavirus patients that were discovered to be defective<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The case arose after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the Bosnia-Croat Federation government to relax public procurement statutes to allow purchases of medical equipment through direct bargaining with suppliers rather than via public tender.<\/p>\n<p>A raspberry processing firm, Srebrena Malina, that had no license to import medical equipment was then recruited by FUCZ to procure 100 ventilators from China for 10.5 million Bosnian marka ($5.84 million) for care of COVID-19 patients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-health-coronavirus-bosnia-ventilators\/bosnian-official-suspended-amid-probe-into-import-of-defective-ventilators-idUKKBN22O26D\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fahrudin Solak, head of the civil protection authority (FUCZ) in the Federation of BiH, was suspended Tuesday\u00a0amid a criminal inquiry into the import of ventilators for\u00a0coronavirus patients that were discovered to be defective The case arose after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the Bosnia-Croat Federation government to relax public procurement statutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current","category-featured",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}