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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Agreement on strengthening health system for vaccination signed

Belgrade, 29 December 2020

Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic, Minister of Health Zlatibor Loncar, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Sem Fabrizi and Director of the UNOPS Office in Serbia Michela Telatin signed today the Agreement on strengthening the health system for vaccination against COVID-19 and of the capacity for the delivery and provision of the cold storage chain.

Joksimovic explained that the agreement redirected the use of €3.2 million from two programmes whose beneficiary is the Ministry of European Integration, and these are the EU pro and EU pro plus programmes, whose purpose has been the strengthening of the local economic development.

Loncar pointed out that it is not enough to just get the vaccine, but special conditions must be provided for its storage, as well as additional equipment for dissolution and inoculation.

A huge part of the funds will be used to meet all the prerequisites for safe vaccination.

Fabrizi explained that part of the funds will be invested in providing a cold chain for vaccines, and therefore 20 ambulances, 26 special vans, refrigerators and devices for deep cooling will be procured.

The second part, as he specified, will be invested in strengthening the capacity of the health system, in the procurement of 40 triage containers, as well as for 200 health workers, whose contracts will be extended for another three months.

Part of the money will be set aside for 3,600 hygienic sets for the Roma community, and for disinfection of approximately 5,000 schools and kindergartens, he underlined.