Aliu: I will continue to contribute to healthcare for as long as I hold the ministerial post

Health Minister Azir Aliu said today, in response to journalists’ questions, that for as long as he remains in this position, he will continue to make an uninterrupted contribution to the healthcare system, while stressing that he will remain maximally engaged for the community even afterward.

He said he will remain Minister of Health until the moment Parliament votes for a new minister, and that until then he will work every minute in service of the country’s healthcare system.

According to Aliu, when he entered politics 10 years ago, his goal was to help, while today, after 10 years and with the political experience he has gained, he is in politics to bring change. As the outgoing minister put it, this concerns changing the way politics is conducted and the way a politician should be transparent and truly function within the system.

Aliu also underlined that each of us has a duty to contribute to the community.

He said he appreciates the fact that there will be continuity in healthcare and added that he is convinced the new minister will continue the policies that have already been put in place. According to him, the reforms built so far have been systematic and for that reason will continue in the future as well.

Answering a journalist’s question, Aliu stressed that he believes digitalization is one of the key elements that should continue in healthcare.

Following the government reshuffle, leadership of the healthcare sector will be taken over by the current director of the Health Insurance Fund, Sasho Klekovski, a member of VMRO-DPMNE.