30.01.2018.
Investing in Military Health is an Investment in the Standard of the Entire Community
Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin visited today the Military Pharmacy “Slavija” in Belgrade.
Acting Head of the Military Health Department Colonel Uglješa Jovičić and Head of the Military Pharmacy “Slavija” Slavica Belčević informed the minister of defence about the situation in military pharmacies and supply level of medicines.
According to Minister Vulin, the Ministry of Defence earmarked for this year 2,490,000.00 RSD for supplies of medicines and medical material, which guaranteed that all the users, some 114000 of them all over Serbia, would be taken care of and they would have required medicines and required medical material so that the military health care would respond to all the needs of its users.
- In Belgrade, 45000 military insured can be assured that the pharmacies will be full, that they will have the possibility to receive medical treatment, that everything that they worked for and invested in will be honoured and that each of them will have the highest possible level of health protection. The military health care is one of the most significant segments of the Ministry of Defence, and it employs 4500 people who take care of hundreds of thousands of our users and who pay attention that each day every user of ours receives the treatment and protection he deserves. Each our pharmacy has to be full of medicines, no matter if it is in Belgrade or any other place, because we do not differentiate between our members on the basis of the place they live in. Each of them has to receive the best possible treatment, and each of them has to have a medicine whenever and wherever it is needed – the minister of defence said.
He stated that by the end of the year, the Ministry of Defence would enable information networking of the entire military health care.
- We will have not only the data on where we have medicines and supply levels, but we will be able to issue electronic prescriptions and we will be able to use all digitalisation advantages. Every investment in the military health care is an investment in not only the standard of our users, but in the standard of the entire community – Minister Vulin pointed out.
As Colonel Jovičić emphasised, the new model for procurement of medicines enabled that from the beginning of 2018 we have refilled shelves in military pharmacies.
- The approach to the procurement model is completely new and we have thus shortened the procedure which was quite long. Hence, the conditions have been created to ensure a continuity of good acquisition and supply. Our task is to use the medicines rationally using good plans and to have a rational control. To accomplish that, we need to link all the pharmacies into one information system that would allow that - Colonel Jovičić said and added that it had been the first time that they started a new calendar year with pharmacies brimming with medicines and he underlined that the fundamental task of the military health care was to have pharmacies well supplied with medicines, that the medicines were provided both for the treatment of patients in stationary conditions as well, and that the medical material was procured.
