24.02.2018.
Military Health Care, a Good Image of our Armed Forces
As the Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin announced in the beginning of the year, the activity “Free medical examinations for all the citizens” was continued today in the Military Health Centre Cerak. In the framework of today’s activity, more than 280 citizens scheduled and carried out specialist medical examinations in that health centre.
After a tour, Minister Vulin underlined that military health care was our way to demonstrate to the civilian population how well and how valuable it is to invest in the armed forces.
- The Serbian Armed Forces are there for their citizens. In the framework of free medical examinations in the military health system, more than 3000 of our patients have been examined and I am truly proud to say that it is our great satisfaction and that it speaks about how much the military health care is appreciated and how much people trust military doctors and have confidence in everything that the armed forces do. This year some two billion dinars have been allocated for procurement of medicines and medical equipment. Apart from that, we will find budgetary resources to conduct far more thorough reconstruction of our centres, to purchase new equipment and employ a higher number of health workers. We must provide everything that the military health lacks, since the military health takes care of not only 114,000 of our users and 40,000 of our users in Belgrade, but it takes care of around 300,000 civilians that were examined in our system, and about 20,000 civilians who are hospitalised in our facilities. Hence, the military health is our way to show how well we are organised, how valuable we are for this country, and how much we can help our entire population and the entire country – said Minister Vulin.
He also stressed that the military health care was a good way to show an organised, good image, the image of our armed forces that the citizens loved so much and that they truly appreciated.
A doctor, general practice specialist Biljana Rabrenović thanked Minister Vulin for the initiative to organise free medical examinations and to promote the military health care.
- This has been the fourth activity of providing free medical examinations under the auspices of the Centre of Military Medical Institutions. We are extremely proud of the number of the citizens who came and their satisfaction with the received services – Dr Rabrenović said stressing that on that day the citizens had at their disposal nine specialists and a laboratory.
Retired Doctor Marija Plačeš was among the citizens of Belgrade who took today’s opportunity for free medical examinations in the MMC Cerak and she evaluated the activity as excellent initiative of defence system.
- You do not have to wait, you can do everything at one place and quickly. Everybody is kind and perfectly organised. I visited the specialist of internal medicine, who sent me to do the thyroid ultrasound – she said, stressing that she would have waited for those examinations for months in civilian sector but on that day she had completed them in just two hours.
At scheduled time, Ljilja Paovica enters the surgery of a neurologist.
- I am looking forward to talking to the neurologist about a problem that I have been having for a while. This initiative means a lot to me, particularly to older fellow citizens who have difficulty moving around – Ljilja says and she believes that the similar initiatives should be organised more often in the future in order to reach a doctor faster and easier.
State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Bojan Jocić was also present during today’s tour of MMC Cerak, together with Head of Logistics Department of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Brigadier General Željko Ninković and Head of Military Health Department Colonel Uglješa Jovičić. In the end of the last year and beginning of this one, the Ministry of Defence has on several occasions opened the doors of their health centres in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kraljevo, Branje and Bačka Topola when the military doctors examined more than 3000 citizens of Serbia providing top-level health services. The activity of providing free medical examinations to the citizens is still met with great interest in all the towns where it was held, firstly because of the professionalism and quality of work of the employees in the military health centres, and then because of the opportunity to have medical examinations in just one day that are often waited for months.
Next week, to mark 2nd March, Day of the Military Medical Academy, the doctors wrom the Clinics for Cardiology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, and the Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery of the MMA provide fee examinations for the citizens every day from 14 to 19 o’clock.
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