Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic opened a preventive health care centre in Krusevac today, which will be one of 25 such centres in Serbia.
Milosavljevic recalled that preventive centres are part of the ministry's pilot project called "Improvement of Preventive Health Services in Serbia". The project is worth €3 million and is financed by the EU through the European Agency for Reconstruction, he added.
He said that preventive centres will improve citizens’ health culture and help reduce or eliminate risk factors of certain diseases.
According to Milosavljevic, two-thirds of Serbian citizens die of preventable diseases that have not been diagnosed in time.
Director of the Krusevac Health Centre Vojkan Kulic said that the new centre will include an advice centre through which citizens will be able to make appointments, mobile units that can reach even the most out-of-the-way places and a resource-educational-coordinating unit.