Wednesday, 12 September 2007

FOURTH SITTING OF THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE FAMILY

The fourth sitting of the Committee on Health and the Family, held on 12 September, was attended by the Minister of Health, Tomica Milosavljevic, the State Secretaries, Nevena Karanovic and Tomislav Stantic and the Director of the Republic Institute of Health Insurance, Svetlana Vukajlovic.



The fourth sitting of the Committee on Health and the Family, held on 12 September, was attended by the Minister of Health, Tomica Milosavljevic, the State Secretaries, Nevena Karanovic and Tomislav Stantic and the Director of the Republic Institute of Health Insurance, Svetlana Vukajlovic. The sitting was chaired by the Committee Chairperson, Snezana Stojanovic–Plavsic.

Minister Milosavljevic presented the Plan of activities of the Ministry of Health stressing that it is a “continuation of business already underway” under the motto “better health for all in the third millennium”. In his presentation, Minister Milosavljevic pointed out that the Plan can be broken down to ten main priorities:

- patient as the centre of a feasible health system;

- conducting the Strategy of youth health development; prevention of disease and better health protection for children;

- conducting the Strategy of tobacco control;

- conducting the Strategy to reduce the number of unemployed in the health protection system aiming to halve unemployment by 2010;

- decentralisation of the system;

- application of systematic laws in the area of health protection; formation of a Health Council of Serbia and adopting a Plan of health protection development;

- continuation of the reconstruction of health institutions etc.

At the end of his presentation the Minister asked for the Committee members’ full cooperation in planning the budget for 2008, stressing that a proposal should be made to expand health coverage funds for persons without personal income and pregnant women.

Minister Milosavljvic and the Director of the Republic Institute of Health Insurance went on to answer the Committee members’ questions about the current operations of the health system.


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