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President Aleksandar Vučić stated that the newly opened covid hospital in Kruševac, which has 493 hospital beds, of which 150 are in intensive care, will treat patients from the Rasina district, but also from other parts, mainly from Kosovo and Metohija.
Vučić said in Kruševac that the Kovid hospital in that city was built in four months, in record time, and that the equipment, including 150 (high-flow) respirators and 57 mobiles, cost 1 billion and 119 million dinars, that is, 9 5 million euros.
He said there are currently 66 other respirators available that are not deployed.
“We will give all of that to the hospitals in Serbia, we will acquire more ‘high flow’ ventilators for the future,” said Vučić.
He said that a large number of patients from Kosovo and Metohija will be treated at Krusevac hospital, in order to ease the burden of Vranje, Kraljevo and Leskovac hospital.
“We will have a large number of patients from Kosovo and Metohija. We do not ask if they are Serbs or Albanians, but mostly they will be treated from northern Kosovo and Metohija,” Vucic said.
Vučić said it was an exceptional success that the Kovid hospital in Kruševac was completed in four months, while in some previous periods “only public procurement lasted a year and a half”.
He added that 98 apple trees were planted around Kovid’s hospital, in memory of the dead members of the 125 Motorized Brigade, of which, he said, “38 of them died in Košare”, which was abolished in 2005.
“Each apple tree is named after one of the dead fighters. The hospital is a monument to the future,” said Vučić, who laid a wreath at the monument to that brigade in Kruševac before visiting the hospital.
“We will get all the vaccines”
Vučić said that 5,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Serbia in the next two to three days, and that those over 75 years of age living in households will be vaccinated first.
Responding to journalists’ questions before the opening of the covid hospital in Krusevac, Vučić said that it was not enough and that another 30,000 to 40,000 doses were expected.
He said he believes that European Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varheji will help Serbia to obtain the vaccine as soon as possible and not postpone the acquisition.
Vučić said that vaccination is of great importance because it is also a question of economics, and someone “should pay the salaries of 671 newly hired doctors.”
He added that the Russian Sputnik vaccine is still in the testing phase and has been well evaluated for now, that both Chinese and American vaccines are expected and that Serbia will get everything.
“The construction of the kovid hospitals in Krusevac and Batajnica cost 100 million euros”
Vučić stated that the new covid hospital in Batajnica currently houses 530 patients in intensive or semi-intensive care, and that with the opening of the new hospital in Kruševac, there will be enough space for the most difficult covid patients.
At the opening of the Kovid hospital in Krusevac, Vučić said that the first patients would be admitted to that institution on Monday morning.
According to him, the construction of two new covid hospitals in Batajnica and Krusevac, without equipment, cost a little less than 100 million euros.
He said the Kruševac and Batajnica hospitals were built “at the right time” to relieve other kovid hospitals.
“Now I can say that we have enough places in intensive care, even if the situation is worse,” Vucic said.
Read more about kovid-19 and the consequences of the pandemic in the country and the world on the page. Coronavirus.
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