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Reconstructed Health Centre in Železnik opened

Belgrade, 30 December 2024

Prime Minister Miloš Vučević today attended the opening of the reconstructed Simo Milošević Health Centre in Belgrade’s neighbourhood of Železnik, in whose renovation approximately €3 million was invested.

Vučević, together with Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar and Minister for Public Investment Darko Glišić, toured the facility that has been completely reconstructed and employs 84 employees.

The Prime Minister said that residents of Železnik, who have been waiting for the reconstruction of the Health Centre for half a century, can now receive primary health care in the highest-quality conditions.

Vučević recalled that in the Serbian health care sector, primary care has the most widespread network and that employees at health centres should have full support and assistance from the state.

Stressing that there is no other field more important in the country than health and health care, the Prime Minister noted that an 8% increase in salaries for health care workers is planned and that the state will continue to improve their position.

He assessed that the state is investing significantly in health care and innovative medicines, and announced that, in cooperation with the Office for IT and eGovernment, efforts to promote digitalisation in the health care sector will soon be under way, in what will make health care services more accessible to citizens, reducing the need for additional paperwork.

Glišić emphasised that the newly opened health centre, with a total gross area of 3,951 square metres, is vitally important for the 25,000 people whose medical records are already at the centre, adding that there is a potential for that number to increase in the coming days, perhaps even to be doubled.

Lončar said that the goal is for the Health Centre to offer as many specialist services as possible, so that patients do not have to go to other institutions.

General medicine, radiology, paediatrics and gynaecology will be located here, and what the centre did not have before is an ophthalmology department, which will begin operating on 1 February, the Minister specified.