Scams
MUP: Fraudsters pretend to be doctors
Fraudsters most often call elderly citizens on a landline and inform them that one of their family members has been seriously injured, warns the MUP
The "Sound Cannon" Affair
Regional Medical Chamber of Vojvodina: Helping colleagues in case of "sound cannon"
The Regional Medical Chamber of Vojvodina wants to help every doctor "whose professional behavior is being questioned for extra-professional reasons"
Health care
Why does Serbia lack 6.000 doctors?
Chronic staff shortages, low wages and bad management are further collapsing Serbia's healthcare system
Cacak
The saga of the new Čačan hospital: While promises are pouring in, there is a shortage of 130 specialist doctors
Čačak lacks more than 130 specialist doctors. At the same time, the construction of two new hospitals is planned. It seems, however, that these are empty promises
Health care
How many doctors is missing in Serbia?
The good news is that some health centers have started working 24 hours a day. It is bad, however, that there are not enough doctors in Serbia
Francuska
When you are examined alone, and the doctor looks at you through the camera
In places with few doctors, patients in France are using "medical containers" for self-examinations under the supervision of doctors via video calls, in an attempt to alleviate the problem of "medical deserts"
Health care
Report: As many as 57 percent of Serbs trust artificial intelligence more than doctors
According to the latest Štada health report, Serbs most often use artificial intelligence in Europe for health consultations, due to the immediate answers and round-the-clock availability
Student protests
Doctors say: Without empathy, policemen, you stop being human
A group of doctors who provided medical assistance to students in the blockade created a portrait of "a uniformed individual who acts blindly obediently, on command, believing in his cosmic role as a righteous man in society."
Poljska
Jail for doctors who refused to perform an abortion on a pregnant woman who then died
A district court in Pszczyna, Poland found doctors guilty of endangering the life of a 30-year-old woman, identified only as Izabela, in a case that sparked protests across the country
Novi Sad
KCV doctors request support for students: submission of requests to the Medical Chamber
KCV doctors submitted to the Medical Chamber of Vojvodina a request that professional medical associations support the students who have been protesting for months
Health care
How old are doctors in Serbia on average and how many are there?
Data from the Institute for Public Health of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut" show that almost 68 percent of medical doctors are women. How many doctors are there in Serbia and what is their average age?
Cancer-wound of Serbian healthcare
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?
Slovakia
Trade union struggle: More than 2700 Slovak doctors quit their jobs
More than 2700 doctors in Slovakia quit their jobs today. They demand from the Minister of Health to increase salaries and stop the process of transformation of state hospitals into joint stock companies
Health care
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
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.
Who will treat us?
"Deterioration of the health care system": Why around 600 doctors leave Serbia every year
The Union of Doctors and Pharmacists of Serbia warns of a very high rate of departure of our doctors to work abroad
Interview
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)
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
Why wait for operations: Too few doctors and nurses
Long waiting lists, "burnout" at work, insufficiently educated staff, too many employees in the administration are problems facing the healthcare system
Society
Less and less vaccinated children: The return of whooping cough in Serbia and the region
Doctors were not surprised that forgotten diseases are returning because fewer and fewer children are vaccinated
Israel at war
Doctors in Gaza operate on patients on the floor, without anesthesia
British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sita told the BBC that doctors at Al Shifa hospital used up a month's worth of medical supplies in one day.
Serbia
Five doctors were arrested: They wrote prescriptions without the patients' knowledge
It is about two related organized criminal groups that operated in the period from November 22, 2018 to July 22, 2021, one of which consisted of doctors, four of them, from the Donja Gušterica Health Center, and the other of seven pharmacists , from Belgrade, Kragujevac and Sremska Mitrovica
Health care
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
Two weeks of sick leave: Why the minister does not trust her doctors
"Does the minister think that general practitioners fake sick leave? If she has such knowledge, I would like to hear it," says pulmonologist Dejan Žujović.
A story from life
Death on the way to the "Serbia of Hope": Momčilo doesn't have to do anything anymore
Momčilo Vučković from the village of Donja Budriga in Kosovo died at the age of 43, on Tuesday afternoon, in the Clinical Center in Pristina. He suffered a fatal head injury on the way to the meeting of the Serbian Progressive Party in Belgrade called "Serbia of Hope".
Health care
Research: Every tenth doctor plans to leave Serbia
Every second citizen of Serbia is satisfied with the quality of services in state healthcare institutions, the results of NALED's research show
Health care
Doctor from Niš: We don't want our patients to die waiting for surgery
Mlađan Golubović says that they came up with the idea from human motives, that they received information from the nurses from the call center that a couple of patients they called for surgery had died in the meantime.