Izvor: N1 televizija, 18.Sep.2018, 11:32 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Serbian health care minister denies accusations
Serbian Health Care Minister Zlatibor Loncar denied accusations that the authorities were not doing enough to help children with serious medical problems and that there was no system in place to provide assistance.
He said that a fund was set up in 2014 to send children abroad for treatment but that it is not in full use because people are not filing requests. He said that the country’s health insurance fund paid for the treatment of 45 children outside the country in 2014 and >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << for 614 in 2017 and added that a number of foreign experts came to Serbia to treat children.
“This is a system solution, so we don’t have to resort to text messages,” he said. The minister said parents who learn that their child can’t be treated in Serbia should send all the medical paperwork they have to the fund. “It isn’t ideal because they don’t file requests. I am appealing to everyone,” he said.
Accusations have been leveled against the Serbian authorities in the past few days over the case of a four year old boy who needed treatment for cancer which could not be provided in the country. A private foundation announced that it had collected the 100,000 Euros needed to pay for the treatment before the government said it was going to give the foundation 250,000 Euros for the treatment of five other children who were on the foundation’s waiting list.
