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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

New method of health care financing to be introduced

Belgrade, 18 June 2004

Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic will participate in a three-day working meeting on financing health care in Serbia, to be held in Dublin from June 18 to 21. Foreign experts and the Serbian delegation will discuss a new method of financing health centres, which should lead to higher quality of services and increase motivation of employees.

Tomica Milosavljevic

The Minister told the Serbian government's official web site that the new method of financing will be based on the principles of the results and quality work. It will be first used in the Kraljevo Health Centre, as part of a pilot project of primary health service that is implemented there. It is expected to begin in Kraljevo in the second half of this year, and then to be introduced in all other health centres in Serbia as of 2005.

The three-day seminar on financing health care in Serbia has been organised by the International Red Cross Committee. Experts from the renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will participate in the work of the seminar. Apart from the Minister Milosavljevic, the Serbian delegation will include other representatives of the Ministry, the Serbian Institute for Health Insurance, the Milan Jovanovic Batut Institute and the Kraljevo Health Centre.

The seminar is part of the pilot project of primary health services that was launched in Kraljevo in 2002. The International Red Cross assisted the projected with a $3 million donation.