Health Minister Vili Beros said on Monday he had engaged all stakeholders and requested reports from all medical institutions about possible irregularities in COVID-19 vaccination.

Data are being collected via the vaccination register and a commission has been set up to oversee vaccination, and if there are any discrepancies, it will order an inspection, he told the press. If there are omissions, the cases will be referred to the professional chambers, he added.

Beros said he was confident he would receive reports from most medical institutions, “as well as from the digital platform,” today already. “Very accurately, as stipulated.”

Asked if the director of Zagreb’s infectious diseases hospital, Alemka Markotic, had abused her office by having her mother vaccinated against COVID, Beros said the opinion of the relevant institutions was important, not his.

Speaking at the same press conference, Markotic said professionals had said everything concerning her mother’s vaccination and that what she said last Friday about the vaccination of one journalist was misinterpreted.

“I didn’t enable any journalist to be vaccinated. I know a lot of people. One journalist boasted to someone I know about being vaccinated, it doesn’t matter for what, out of turn.”

She said her intention had been to prevent condemnation because it was not known if that person, given their medical condition, had reason to be vaccinated. She added that before judging whether someone was vaccinated out of turn or should have been vaccinated, it was necessary to know if indeed anything wrong had been done.

Markotic said her mother qualified for the vaccine, “which has been confirmed by a score of top professionals.”