The directors of the Emergency Medicine Institute, the Mother and Child Institute and the Oncological Institute were penalized by being warned following an inspection carried out to see if the hospitals have the necessary medicines and consumables, IPN reports.

According to the Ministry of Health, the vice director of the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices, who is responsible for the purchase of drugs, was also warned.

As the hospitals lacked some of the medicines and consumables, the patients had to buy these themselves and this aroused their dissatisfaction.