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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Prompt diagnosis and disease prevention to be priority

Belgrade, 6 December 2005

Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic said today that prompt diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular and malignant diseases will be among the priorities in improving preventive health care, because they are responsible for two-thirds of deaths in Serbia.

Tomica Milosavljevic

Author: Fonet

Speaking at a conference with the theme “Achievements in public health care”, Milosavljevic said that emphasis should be on prevention, not on cure, because suffering from a large percentage of preventable diseases is a defeat for medical science.

At the conference dedicated to results of the two-year project “Support to public health care development in Serbia”, which will come to a close at the end of this month, Milosvljevic said that the European Union financed the implementation of this project through the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), and in cooperation with several partners.

He said that owing to the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross, a pilot primary health care project in the municipality of Kraljevo was implemented, and added that the financing and method of work of general medicine must change throughout Serbia according to the model of the selected doctor, which has been introduced in the Health Care Centre in Kraljevo.

The head of the public health care support project Ulrih Laser said that Serbia needs to implement the developed standards that have already been accepted in Europe, and added that it is obvious that for the reform of public health care needs, more resources need to be acquired through a redistribution of existing funds.

Participants of the conference concluded that the existence of health managers is important for the promotion of public health care, and that those managers will be educated at the Public Health Care Centre within the framework of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, which has been founded within the framework of the project being funded by the EU.