02.09.2021.
New Covid hospital opened in Novi Sad
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Nebojša Stefanović, PhD, attended today the opening of a new Covid hospital in the urban neighbourhood of Mišeluk near Novi Sad, which has been built in just four months. On this occasion, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said that this is the third Covid hospital built during the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
- After Belgrade, i.e. the hospitals in Batajnica and Kruševac, we are opening a hospital in Novi Sad today. I am satisfied and proud that the equipment and care that we will be able to provide to all patients and citizens who need them, will be at the highest possible level - said Prime Minister Brnabić.What can be seen today in the new hospital in Novi Sad, she emphasized, is the most that one state can do and that the health system can provide for patients in order to save their lives and restore their health.
- I want to say that Novi Sad has got an important thing this way – its own general hospital. When all this is over and when all this is behind us, this will not be a Covid hospital, but a general hospital in Novi Sad, a hospital that has been talked about for so long and dreamed of for decades - said Prime Minister Brnabić, adding that a great thing has been done for new generations and the future of Novi Sad.
In addition to the Prime Minister and Minister Stefanović, the Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar, the President of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina Ištvan Pasztor, the President of the Provincial Government Igor Mirović and the Mayor of Novi Sad Miloš Vučević also attended the opening.
The modern Covid hospital in Novi Sad, which has been built in just four months, has 19,500 square metres and more than 600 beds, 220 of which critical care beds.
The State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Branko Živanović, Deputy Head of the Military Health Department, Colonel Dr. Radivoje Andjelković, and the Head of the Infrastructure Department, Colonel Slobodan Starčević also attended the opening of the new hospital.
