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Centre for preventive health care opened in Palilula medical centre
Belgrade,
5 June 2006
Serbian Assistant Minister of Health Snezana Simic opened today a centre for preventive health care in the Palilula medical centre and announced that during the month of June such centres will be opened in another 24 regional medical centres in Serbia.
Simic recalled that centres for preventive health are part of the Ministry of Health's project called "Improvement of Preventive Health Services in Serbia" financed by the EU and managed by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR).
She said that a study on the health conditions of Serbian citizens showed that 80% of Serbian citizens die of diseases that can be cured if detected on time and that is why the Ministry's work strategy will focus on early detection.
Director of Palilula medical centre Jasmina Jelic explained that the centre will consist of three wholes - a department where preventive medical checks will be carried out without previous appointments, a call centre where patients will be given advice on health and healthy life style every working day from 7 am to 7 pm, and a mobile unit with a terrain vehicle.
EPOS representative Brian Potter pointed to the worrying fact that every day one woman in Serbia dies of cervical cancer and that 100 citizens of Serbia die prematurely because of smoking.
Potter pointed out that EAR wants to finance the opening of preventive health care centres in regional medical centres, aiming to reduce the number of patients and the death rate from non-infectious diseases, such as heart diseases, cancer and diabetes, as well provision of health services to citizens who want to check their health.
She said that a study on the health conditions of Serbian citizens showed that 80% of Serbian citizens die of diseases that can be cured if detected on time and that is why the Ministry's work strategy will focus on early detection.
Director of Palilula medical centre Jasmina Jelic explained that the centre will consist of three wholes - a department where preventive medical checks will be carried out without previous appointments, a call centre where patients will be given advice on health and healthy life style every working day from 7 am to 7 pm, and a mobile unit with a terrain vehicle.
EPOS representative Brian Potter pointed to the worrying fact that every day one woman in Serbia dies of cervical cancer and that 100 citizens of Serbia die prematurely because of smoking.
Potter pointed out that EAR wants to finance the opening of preventive health care centres in regional medical centres, aiming to reduce the number of patients and the death rate from non-infectious diseases, such as heart diseases, cancer and diabetes, as well provision of health services to citizens who want to check their health.
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