New minister of Health Ogerta Manastirliu has a professional resume full of heavy financial scandals from the time she managed the University Hospital Center Nënë Tereza (QSUT) in Tirana.

The woman who will guide the Albanian healthcare now has been officially accused from the High State Control of abuse with public tenders and financial fraud, making fictive payments to the private hospitals from the QSUT budget.

An audition report from the High State Control last year found out that Manastirliu had made fictive payments to two private hospitals, subcontracted by QSUT for the dialysis service.

“The audition found out there is no record or evidence of the patients’ number and data on their conditions, necessary to follow the level of fulfilled séances and the service bill from the subcontracted hospital”, the report says.