The Ambassador of the European Union to Serbia, Emanuele Giaufret, met Serbian Minister of Health, Dr. Danica Grujičić.
Implementation of projects financed from the funds of the European Union, such as the twinning project to improve the functioning of the Directorate for Biomedicine, the future twinning project, which will begin in 2023, and concerns the control of infectious diseases, are some of the topics discussed by Ambassador Žiofre and Minister Grujičić. There was also talk about a new project, which will improve the infrastructure of the laboratories of the Institute for Public Health “Batut”, the Institute for Public Health Niš and the Institute for Public Health Kragujevac.
The Ambassador of the European Union stated: „Over the past two decades the EU equipped hospitals, laboratories, institutes of public health and blood transfusion centres, provided ambulances vehicles and other equipment. There are new modern surgical operating rooms, emergency centres, a large number of hospital beds. Also, let us not forget the great support Serbia got from the EU during the most difficult period of COVID pandemic.
I am proud to say that thanks to EU’s assistance, millions of Serbian citizens have better and more modern medical care. I have great hope that we will continue good relationship with Serbian Ministry of Health and that more success awaits us in the future.“
The minister pointed out that, in addition to the improvement of primary health care, the introduction of a family doctor, the improvement of the law on health insurance, the priority of the Ministry of Health is the realization and completion of capital investment facilities: the construction of the new Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, the University Children’s Clinic in Tiršova and the completion of construction four clinical centers.
Over a period of more than 20 years the EU invested well over 516 million Euros into Serbia’s health sector. Over the past two decades the EU provided among many other items of assistance a total of 284 fully equipped ambulances for health centres around Serbia, 122 of which were equipped with ventilators, crucial in the fight against COVID 19.
Through the European Investment Bank funds in the amount of 250 million EUR were used for the reconstruction and construction of 20 large hospitals across Serbia, including the “Torlak” Institute, as well as the four University Clinical Centres in Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad and Kragujevac, all of them instrumental in the fight against coronavirus. The EU currently supports the construction of a children’s hospital in Belgrade.
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