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A new kovid hospital with places for 500 patients was inaugurated in Krusevac, on the day that Serbia records more than 300,000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the epidemic.
„[Ovim] We will cover not only Krusevac, but also the northern part of the Raska district, a significant part of the Moravica district and the southern part of the Sumadija district, but also the Toplica district, “Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the inauguration.
After the installation in Batajnica, which opened in early December, this is the second hospital that should ease the health system, which registers a large number of new cases of infection every day.
According to the latest data, there are more than 9,600 patients with Kovid-19 in hospitals in Serbia.
At the inauguration of the Kruševac hospital, President Vučić said that 600 doctors, nurses and other medical personnel would work there.
The new hospital will receive patients from Monday morning, and initially the doctors will work on it together with the employees of the Nis Clinical Center.
It should reduce the pressure on that center, where patients from this part of Serbia with a severe clinical picture were treated in the first wave of the epidemic.
Vučić stated at the opening that the hospital will have “150 monitors and respirators”.
Out of 500 hospital beds, 150 are for intensive care and 350 for semi-intensive care, said the director of the hospital in Krusevac, Vladan Cvetanović.
Cvetanović explained that the hospital was designed and adapted to the patients, meaning that it is known exactly where they are going and where the employees are.
“It is important that staff are protected at all times,” he said.
In the hospital, in addition to the intensive and semi-intensive care departments, there is also an admission triage department, a modern diagnostic center and a laboratory.
Hospitals in kovid system
Among the health institutions that have entered the covid system are the Mataruška Banja Special Hospital, the Niš Military Hospital and the Banjica Orthopedic Institute.
Zemun Hospital, KBC Zvezdara, KBC Dragiša Mišović, KBC Bežanijska kosa, Clinic for Burns, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery KCS in Zvečanska, Clinic for Neumology and Clinic for Thoracic Surgery of the Clinical Center of Serbia, Niška b were returned to the covid system in November. and Koviljača, Niš Military Hospital, Pirot General Hospital.
A temporary kovid hospital has been established in the Stark Arena, and these days the Nis Chair, the Čačak Blue Hall in Atenica, the Novi Sad Military Hospital in Petrovaradin and the Šumadija Fair in Kragujevac also serve the same purpose.
The Serbian public health system has 40,662 hospital beds, according to the latest publicly available data from the database of the Institute of Public Health Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut.
The latest comparable data available to Eurostat shows that the number of beds in Serbian public health is above the European average: the European average is 541 beds, while in Serbia there are 567 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is the highest region of.
However, the same data shows that Serbia is far below the average for EU countries in terms of the number of doctors: 296 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 372 in Europe.
The situation in Serbia, relative to the region, is the worst in terms of the number of nurses and technicians: 82 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 577 in Europe, or 567 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Eurostat database was published in February 2020, but the 2018 data is used in the analysis.
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