"Threats have been made, since we have stirred up different networks," the Minister of Health Milojka Kolar Celarc publicly announced during the TV show. She mentioned suppliers of medical devices, and construction networks she upset after her arrival to the Ministry, explicitly she mentioned repairs at the Institute of Oncology.

According to Erik Brecelj, the good solutions are informatisation, an agency for joint orders, and help from the Scandinavian countries. "We have already received the offers, but you have showed to us what is going on in spite of that," Brecelj said.

The European Union will prepare a list of comparable prices of medications and medical equipment, the Minister explained, and added that that should make the purchase easier.

Even a central order would be "messed with"
"The state will prepare centralised public purchases, and the prices will be published and available to public," the Minister announced. "It can succeed in the North, but not here on the Balkan peninsula. We would find a way to mess it up," the surgeon Erik Brecelj is convinced, as he believes it is easier to convince a single commission than a number of people in different hospitals.
The director of the Maribor University Medical centre Janez Lavre announced an annulment of the contract for delivery of the more expensive stents. "The fact is that the profession plays the decisive role," he explains his reasons for signing the contract. The cardiologist Dragan Kovačič from the Celje hospital explains that they intend to insist on the more expensive and better stents, as they often save lives. He is not familiar with, and won't comment on the fact that such stents are not used in Ljubljana. The Ministry of Health hasn't addressed the difference in price of stents. "We expected it would be dealt with by the managements of the hospitals," the Minister of Health Milojka Kolar Celarc explained.
Wasteful actions by hospitals
Ten of the largest wholesale traders sell to 26 public hospitals medical goods for the amount of 215 million euros. Although officially this market is strictly regulated, almost anything is permitted, and overpaying is preposterous. The disarray is even more obvious when compared to Sweden and Finland, where they managed to reduce prices, improve the quality of services, and practically eradicate systemic corruption in healthcare by employing the system of joint purchases.