Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy and coordinator of the health ministry Slobodan Lalovic opened today the newly-built emergency ward in Laplje Selo in Kosovo-Metohija, financed by the Serbian government.
Before that, Lalovic also visited the Gracanica monastery where he promised government's help for the installation of central heating. Afterwards he held a meeting there and talked to representatives of organisations of the disabled from Gracanica and Pristina.
The Minister also visited the house in which ten disabled children are accommodated and gave them new year's presents promising that the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy will help these children to finally get a decent place to live. Until 1999, the children lived in a children's home in Stimlje.
Lalovic also visited the Kosovska Mitrovica health centre where he opened a children's ward at the clinic and announced that the government will invest around €5 million for health institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica.
He said that the Ministry of Health intends to build a health centre in Zubin Potok, as well as to reconstruct the health centre and a surgery ward in Kosovska Mitrovica and provide 15 vehicles and a scanner to this institution.