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The keys to the vehicles were given to directors of health centres in Secanj, Sremska Mitrovica, Blac, Veliko Gradiste, Boljevac, Svrljig, Sabac, Razanj and Belgrade.
Milosavljevic said that a well-organised emergency service should not be a privilege of big cities and each citizen of Serbia must be given a chance to receive proper emergency medical assistance when the need arises.
He said that providing medical assistance to emergency patients is an absolute priority in all health care systems and it is therefore necessary to improve the work of all emergency centres in Serbia.
According to Milosavljevic, the prehospital death rate and medical assistance to emergency patients are below satisfactory in Serbia, and all citizens should be trained to give first aid as the Law on Red Cross envisages.
Milosavljevic announced that the modernisation of organisational and expert aspects of emergency centres will be continued next year.
Director of Belgrade's Emergency Centre Borko Josifovski said that approximately 200 hemodialysis patients are transported by special vehicles to health centres on a daily basis. These vehicles cover around four million kilometres a year, therefore they have a shorter life span, he explained.