15.07.2017.
Defence Minister visits injured workers from the Centre for Social Work
Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin has visited today, with the Acting Head of the Military Medical Academy Colonel Prof. Dr. Miroslav Vukosavljević, the two injured from the Centre for Social Work of the municipality of Rakovica, who are hospitalized at the Military Medical Academy.
Minister Vulin visited the patient Danijela Mihailov (1972), who after the injuries in the arm and back area was taken care of at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns of the MMA and patient Vojkan Tomićevič (1979) who, after serious injuries in the head, neck and arm, has been recovering successfully at the MMA Clinic for Maxillofacial Surgery.
During his visit, Minister Vulin, having talked to the patients and medical staff on-call, assured himself that the injured were provided with all necessary medical care and that they were in stable health condition.
He told patients that "nobody would have resented if they were frightened, but they did not, because, when a human being, if we can talk about a human being, kills his wife and his four-year-old child, then we are talking about the incomprehensible extent of evil and about something that cannot be described by words".
- The social workers who opposed this monster are heroes. These are people we do not talk about enough. These are people who have prevented a greater tragedy because that monster would surely continue to do what he started to do. These people did not ask what they were trained for, or what university they have, or what they should do, but they did what we all would like to have the courage to do, if ever there is such an incident and if we ever witness such evil. We should thank these people, and when we criticize the system, that's fine, and the system should be criticized. The system will be better, it will be improved, we will see where the mistakes are to correct them, but when criticizing it we should never criticize these people. They are heroes. Let's say thank you, because they really deserve it, Minister Vulin said.
He stressed that these are people who together are not as strong, or big, as "that monster was, an he was even armed".
- Defectologists and social workers have offered their lives to save the child and mother and to stop the monster. They are heroes. We do not repeat this often enough, we do not talk to them often enough. We should be proud of the quality of people working in the social protection system, and the system should be improved, changed, and it will be better. As we have been working hard over the past years to make it better, I am sure that the authorities will make it even better. These people should be our pride, we should thank them because they really deserve it. The quality of people working in the social welfare system is for every pride, and everything else needs to be changed, needs to be improved, Minister Vulin said.
According to Colonel Vukosavljević, this is a type of complex trauma, primarily psychic trauma.
- As a man who has an exceptional experience with the treatment of injuries to all parts of the body, it is a wonder that it just ended up on this. These people wanted to save the mother and the child in their workplace. We do everything in our power. I hope that there will be less such injuries in the future and that our children will be able to move freely and have their childhood as well as their mothers along with them, the Acting Head of the MMA said.
The injured patients pointed out that they "instinctively started to save the child and the mother" and that the tragedy would have certainly been larger in size if the employees of the Centre did not react in this way.
