Parents of children with speech and language problems have to pay an average of 500 euros per month for a private speech therapist, defectologist and psychologist because the state does not have enough employed specialists. Supplements, vitamins, additional stimulation therapy should be added to the list of expenses, so the expenses exceed 1.000 euros per month.
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?
The merger of the state health system with private medical practices and hospitals started to be talked about as early as 2014. Ten years later, hardly anything has started
Serbia has 12 percent fewer pediatricians than 10 years ago. Many went abroad and into private practice, and one of the reasons is the ban on specialization that was in force for ten years.
You are alone like a leaf in the wind that somehow still stumbles on stones. Pediatricians do not notice anything unusual, they are not educated for it - "you are exaggerating, mother, you worry too much". When you've played around enough, you finally get advice on where to go. There are few specialized institutions, and even fewer experts. The diagnosis takes years. I knew I was the mother of a child with autism years before I got the paper that said it. Therapeutic work in state institutions often does not cover what the child needs, especially in the stages of early development when it should be the most intensive. Private speech therapists, defectologists, physiatrists, depending on the difficulties the child has, exhaust the household budget
Almost 20 million women in Europe do not have the right to a safe abortion. In Serbia, approximately 10.000 such procedures are officially performed annually, and the intentional termination of pregnancy is most often performed in the population aged 35 to 44.
Everything that happened to me, everything that I experienced, poured out of me into one purified, undefined feeling. I didn't even try to stop him
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.
During the summer season this year, there were at least nine deaths on the Greek islands, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child due to a lack of medical staff
