Cancer-wound of Serbian healthcare

20November 2024 Tijana Stanic

Whoever survives will wait

In a country where citizens shell out large sums of money for health insurance, tens of thousands of people still wait years for basic medical interventions. During that time, the President of Serbia proposed populist and long-term unsustainable measures. Is there a cure for endless waiting lists?

Health care

28October 2024 IN THE

Will Serbia also import doctors after drivers?

Between 500 and 600 doctors leave Serbia every year, and 75 percent of employees in the Serbian healthcare system are considering leaving the country. How close we are to importing doctors from abroad

Patients' rights

11June 2024 IM / RTS

How and to whom to complain if a doctor insults you

If patients are not satisfied with the doctor's attitude, they can first contact the head of service, then the director of the Health Center, and finally they can send a written complaint by email, mail or deliver it in person.

Interview

28February 2024. NS

The cataclysm of the healthcare system

"I believe that today's health system survives to some extent only thanks to humanity, the extraordinary efforts and sacrifices of health workers," public health expert Predrag Đurić told Vreme.

"Times" file: Memoirs of a heart patient (2)

07February 2024. Branko Chechen

Night angel of the coronary unit

A year had to pass since the installation of three bypasses, so I can try to describe the experience of a few weeks in the arms of Serbian healthcare. There I watched in amazement how ordinary people every day, few in number and in terrible conditions, poorly paid and insufficiently respected, do real feats to bring back their loved ones and society in usable condition. At a time when we are witnessing the unimaginably evil actions of some health workers, I think it is in the vital public interest that we do not identify the "white coats" with such atrocities and that we be ready to see those among them who, despite the inhuman environment, still shine with humanity.

Health care

05October 2023 MJ

Sick leave in Serbia will be 60 days instead of 30

The draft law on amendments to the Law on Health Insurance was adopted, which proposed that the elected doctor, as a rule, determine temporary incapacity for work for up to 30 days, instead of the previous 60 days

Health care

22February 2023. S.Ć.

Doctors from Nis: We don't have time for bureaucratic stamps

Although they did not receive the approval of the Ministry, the doctors of the Niš Clinic for Cardiac Surgery started operating on weekends as well, on a voluntary basis, in order to reduce the waiting lists. Since the beginning of the year, three times more people have been operated on than in the same period last year