Montenegro Health Firms Report €55.7 Million in Three-Year Profits

What changed

Eight Montenegro-based companies involved in procuring medicines and medical equipment, or providing related services, recorded a combined €55.7 million in net profit over three years. Action for Social Justice has now released the aggregated figures.

Why it matters

The number puts a hard figure on the money being made around Montenegro’s medicine and medical-equipment procurement system. But it does not yet show how that profit was divided among the eight firms, why it was generated, or whether it changed prices, supply or access to healthcare.

That distinction matters. €55.7 million is significant as a measure of combined profitability, but it is not by itself evidence of wrongdoing or proof that patients paid more. The next useful question is much more specific: which companies produced the profits, and what do their accounts show about the contracts and services behind them?