YUGOSLAV MEDICAL EDUCATION, FACILITIES, TREATMENT, AND STATISTICS

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• Publication Date: February 24, 1953
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CLASSIFICATION CUNFIDENPiAT?
CENTRAL IN~L11(itlVC;tN~'titlVl:YION
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY yugosLsvia
SUBJECT Scientific -Medical, public health
Sociological -Education
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily and thrice monthly newspapers
DATE DIS~geb 1953
WHERE
PUBLISHED Zagreb; Belgrade; Prague NO. OF PAGES lO
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
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3 Feb - 4 8ep 1952
Croatian; Serbian
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
YUGOSLAV. ttEDICAL EDUCATION FACII,PPIES TREATMEAT Al? BTATISTIC3
~omment: The Yugoslav government appears to be making as in-
tense effort to increase the number and improve the quality of med-
ical and allied personnel and to extend the scope of health services.
During the first 8 months of 1952 the Yugoslav press devoted eon-
eiderable space to health prograas and reiterated the need for
cooperation between military and civilian health officials Sn bring-
ing the benefits of modern health and sanitation methods to areas of
Yugoslavia never before visited by a doctor. In this connection it
may be of interest to note an article in the anti-TSto Rova Borba,
publYShed in Prague, aLle3ing that the Yugoslav Health Service has
failed to safeguard the health of Yugoslavs and lower industrial
accidents.
The following report is not as exhauwtive survey of public
health activities as reported in the Yugoslav press i'rom 3 February -
4 September 1952, but rather selective. Articles dealing with health
and sanitation activity, which are frequently mentioned in the press,
have been chosen as indicative of the importance the Yugoslav govern-
ment attaches to keeping the public informed of such activity.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources)
Medical and Nuraea' Schools
At its meeting on 10 July, the Advanced Medical School Council (Savet
Medicinske velike skcle) adopted a plan requiring 6 years of study for a degree
from the Medical Faculty in Belgrade. According to an article in Politika the
5 yenrs of study formerly required proved to be inadequate for training in
modern medicine. A summary of the article follows:
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After World War II, Yugoslavia needed to fill the depleted ranks of its
doctors. Because the faculty had not been operating during the war a large
number of students were xaiting to begin medical training. From 1946 to 1951,
3,877 students were enrolled in the medical faculty. However, because
materiais?and teachers available were sufficient to train only 100 students
at a time, the faculty could not give adequate medical training to so many.
Lectures were given without study outlines, frequently being accompanied only
by blackboard illustration. Clinical training suffered because of a shortage
of apace, and a frequent lack of patients. Because 15 to 25 groups had to be
trained each year the small number of teachers had difficulty in meeting
teaching schedules. The shortage of good textbooks has also hampered education.
Although the situation has improved within the past 5 years a large number of
students have studied and even graduated without having had textbooks in most
of their sub,7ects.
The new 6-year plan calls for changes which are expected to make consid-
erable improvements in the Medical Faculty. 's.arollment will be limited and
accomplished through rigid competition. Final e.~caminations will cover the
xhole field of medicine. The first examination will cover physics, chemistry,
and biology; the second, anatomy, histology, and embryology; the third,
physiology and biochemistry; the fourth, general pathology and pathological
physiology; the fifth, sveciel anatomical pathology, internal medicine,
pharmacology and roentgenology; the sixth, neurology and psychiatrics; the
seventh, infectious diseases, microbiology, epidemiology, and dermatovenerology;
the eighth, gynecology, pediatrics, and obstetrics; the ninth, surgery,
otolaryngology, opthalmology, and atometology; the tenth, hygiene and organization
of the medical service; and the eleventh, legal medicine.
The practical part of examinations x111 be given in a clinic or an institute
by a teacher of the subject concerned, while examinations Sn theory will be
given by the Education Commission. If a candidate fails one aub~ect included
in an examination, but passes the others, he will be required to take the entire
examination the following year. The same examination can be repeated only three
times. '
The plan calls for students to be trained to study during their first year,
to be prepared for clinical work by preclinical sub~ects,and for candidates to
be eliminated who are unqualified to study medicine or have no desire or
aptitude for it.
After the second semester, the student is obliged to pass the first
examination; he cannot enroll for the third semester unless he does so. After
the fourth semester, he is obliged to pass the second examination or he cannot
enroll in the fifth semester. After the fifth semester, he is obliged to pace
the third examination or he cannot enroll for the seventh semester. Students
may take the fourth examination at the end oP the sixth or during the seventh
semester, but enrollment for following semesters is not dependent on passing
this examination. The remaining examinations are to be taken in chronological
order in free time after the eleventh semester.
Special attention will be paid to practical clinical training. Fourth,
fifth, and sixth year students will spend the forenoon working in clinics or
other health institutions. Lectures and practical work in nonclinical sub3ecte
will be given in the afternoon.
Because the', change-over to a 6-year course will take place in 1952, the
following provisions will govern the Ctatus of students already enrolled.
Students who enrolled in the first semester of 1951-1952, and those on the
ge"feral register who are taking their first year sub,fect examinations during
June and September;1952, will be governed by the new regulations.
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Students who enrolled in the first semester of 1951-1952 but xho did not
take their examinations in June or September 1952, will bo enrolled is the
general register of students for 1952-1953 ands will take their examinations
in June and September of 1953 under the old regulations. If they pass these
examinations they may enroll in the third semester and take their examinations
under the new regglatlone. Students with att accredited fourth semester is "
1951-1952, and those who are in the general register following an accredited
fourth semester, and vho have passed all eecond year examinations, xill~con-
tiaue their studies in the fifth semester according to the new regulations.
Students who have passed the examination is anatomy, histology, and embryology,
snu are enrolled in the fifth semester, will be gnvFrned by the new regulations.
,Students who Lave not taken the first two examinations in June or September
1952 may enroll Sn the fifth semester is 1952-1953 and take their examinations
according to former regulations; then they mz~ enroll in the sixth semester
and continue their studies under the new regulations. Those students vho are
in the general register after completing their fifth semester, and those xho
take the en~iastlons under Article 15 of the former regulations, will con-
tinue their studies under the new regulations after taking examinations in all
second-year aub,jects.
Students who have received acczeditat.lon for their sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, and tenth semesters will study and take examinations under the former
regulations.
The former requirement of one years' interneship after completion of
studies hsa been changed to 2 yeara.(1)
The 31 May 1952 issue of Barba published the following announcement
regarding registration for the first semester of 1 2-1
Faculty of Zagreb University; 95 953 in the Medical
Two hundred and twenty-five students will be admitted, 200 in general
medicine and 25 in odoatology, The passing of entrance and physical examina-
tions is required of all candidates. Candidates, vho are at least 18, who
have passed a Gymnasium examination, or ere graduates of a secondary medical
school (vho Lave successfully worked at least one year in the econo~y, and
passed a Gymmasium -examination) may take entrance examinations.
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Entrance examinations will be given in the second half of July 1952 at the
Medical Faculty in Zagreb. They will cover natura). science (biology, chemiatrg
physics, and basic mathematics), and. will be both written and oral.
Immediately following, candidates will be given a physical examination by
a special commission of the faculty, Candidatza who are not examined or not
pawed by the commission may not register.
Applications which may be presented personally, or mailed to the Medical
Faculty of Zagreb University, will be arcepted up to 15 July 1,952. Applications
must contain the following information: the name of the faculty in which the
student desires to study, full name of the csnd.idate, place and date of birth,
address and name of his secondary school, name of the Gymnasium and date oP
school year in which the Gymnasium examination was passed, statement of
proP~ciency in foreign languages, name of the republic is which the candidate
resides, permanent home address, and date on which the application is submitted.
The application must also contain the original certificate shoving that a
Gymnasium examination has been passed, and two self-addressed postal cards.
Candidates not applying directly from a Gymnasium must also submit proof oP vot-
ing rights. Students from other faculties may also apply but only under the
same conditions ae listed above.
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Graduates oY.secondary medical schools moat also s::bmit a graduation
diploma, a statement that an e-.amination will be taken at a Gymnasium before
registration, and proof and evaluation of work 'in the economy.
Candidates from other republics moat conform to the above conditions.
Eighth-year Gymnasium atuderte moat submit preliminary applications for
registration through their school administration.
Registration for the first semester will take place on 15, 16, and 17
September 1952 in the Medical Faculty in Zagreb.(2)
The 22 June 1952 issue of Borba published the following announcement on
registration in the Nurses' School in Zagreb. Saying that 30 students will be
accepted, and that a prospectus may be obtained from the school:
Candidates must be within the ages 18 to 2j, in perfect health and must
have peened a Gymnasium examination or graduated from a secondary school of
equal rank ( in exceptional situations a candidate with less education may be
considered, but in no case may the candidate have less than 6 years of
schooling).
Applications must contain birth certificate, proof of citizenship,
certification of no crimiml record, work record (if any), certification that a
Gymnasium examination has been passed or a certificate from the last school
attended, and a brief handwritten personal history.
Candidates will be given physical examinations prior to acceptance.
Students must live in the school dormitory aid pay the costs fixed for their
maintenance. In special caeca, some students may receive help.
Applications for registration must be submitted no later than 15 August to
the School of 27uraing, M1lnaraka Costa 38, Zagreb.(3)
'The 13 July 1952 issue of Polittka reported that the first group of
etomatology specialists trained is Yugoslavia received their diplomas on 12 July
at the Stomatological Faculty in Belgradr.. The group included: Jelena
D~ord~evic, Dragoslav Vanderovic, A~san Naumovlc, Alekaandar Koatic, Bo~ana
Joanovic-Mll,jevic, Bozidar Packic, Maksim Petrov, Tra~an Geza, GizeL3 Vadov,
sad NikoLs D`ad~anovic. The group also were accredited as general medical
Practicioners.(4)
Health Protection
ache 12 May 1952 issued of HQrba reported the fo11ov1ng on public health
work is Zagreb; Infant mortality in Zagreb has dropped to less than 6 percent.
Afttr World Wa,? I, the mortality rate was 20 perce:rt; in 1945, it was 12 percent.
Much of this decrease is due to the work of health eatabllahments which labor
to protect the health of newborn and preschool children.
Ia Zagreb, all mothers with sick children report for help to children's
dispensaries which work in all ra~ona. So that all sanitary and preventive
measures can be taken, advisory centers have been set up for mothers with small
children. Such centers are located in nearly every radon and their work is being
expanded. Particular attention is being paid to children's health in new
residential developme.rts. In 1951, an advisory center was net up in Podaused,
and in 1952, one was set up in Gracani. Work is in progress on setting up a
center in Markuaevac, where health conditions are fairly bad. Later, centers axe
to be set up in other places.
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To guard against infection health instruction is given to mothers of
healthy children.' They are received at the centers at t:mea when sick. children
are not, being treated. In the first quarter of 1952, although "mother and
child",bourses were Riven in every ra,jon, only 300 pregnant xomen attended.
Since a>~out 7,OGO children are born annually in Zagreb, this is a very small
numbed pf mothers whc are getting prenatal instruction. Although 'nurses
from the dispensaries called on pregnant women to explain the value of these
courses, the number attending the courses was too small.
A collecting center for mothers' milk is located in the Central Children's
Dispensary (Centralni d,jec~i diepanzer) on Savska Costa. Milk is furnished by
women who have more than they need 'to feed their own children. Every day, the
dispensary receives a total of 20 liters of milk from 30 women. It is dis-
tributed to all health establishm?nte and serves as medicine for sick infanta.
Ia addltioa to giving free advice and medical aid in dispensaries,
. medical-aid nurses, who are specialists :ln the ,pare of mothers and children,
visit women is their homes both before and after they give? birth, giving help
and advise. Every nurse hsa her ova work area. Personal contact ie thus
established between mothers and dispensaries or advisory centers.
In connection with Antituberculosis Week, lectures on how to guard against
infection will be given Ln all dispensaries on the care of the tubercular.(5)
Public health measures to reduce communicable diseases were discussed in
the 5 June 1952 issue of Borba as follows;
There was a high inridence of typhus, trachoma, and other diseases in pre-
xar Slavonia and Baran,ja. In 1939, there were 225 cases of typhus in Oai,jek;
in 1940, 298 caeca; and in 1944, 463. Outbreaks of this disease were due to '
polluted water from the Drava River which was used as drinking water, and to
the water s;/stem which had been damaged during the var.
During the peat few years, the number of typhus cases has decreased consid-
erably not only in Osijek where they were most numerous, but also throughout
Slavonia. In 1952, not more than four cases of typhus appeared in any single
place, because of regular chlorinatian of water and sanitation measures which
were taken in all srezes with the assistance of the Bureau of Aygiene is
Oai,jek. To eliminate typhus completely, a plan has been prepared for the
constr.,:tion of a sanitary water system ].n Osijek.
The campaign against trachomz is being conduc*.ed systematically. An in-
creased number of antitrachoma stations have been opened, where the population
is examined regularly. A short time ago, two new antitrachoma stations xere
opened in Ivandol in Slavonska Pozega Srez, and iri Petrovic. At present, there
are six stations in Slavonia and Baran,7a which doctors visit periodically.
Such stations and opthalmology departments of the hospitals are soon to be
supplied with terramycin.
Much progress has also been made in the prevention and curing of tuber-
culosis. There are dix antituberculosis dispensaries and several auxiliary
stations in Slavonia and Baran~a. Zupan,ja, where tuberculosis is most wide-
spread, has its own dispensary now, and three mere dispensaries are to be added
soon. Success in the campaign against tuberculosis is demonstrated by the open-
1ng of a nex hospital for tubercular children in Strmac near Nova Gradieka.
Th'i's hospital has 80 beds at present, but is to be enlarged by the addition oP
another wing.
Malaria, which was once prevalent especia;ly 1n Baran,ja, is no longer in
evidence. Antima.larin stations Iwve not reported n single malaria case for a
long period. Mosquito breeding grounds are being sprinkled regularly with DDT,
Airplanes are used for this purpose.(6)
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An article signed by L. S, in Borba of 20 July 1952, described the work
of a medical group from Skopl,je Garrison which hsa been investigating the
health of inhabitants in Tetovo Srez since the beginning of June, as Pollowa:
The group includes seven doctors, who are specialists in internal
medicine, epii niology, surgery, roentgenology, pediatrics, and dentistry, a
midwife, and 20 medical assistants. They are equipped with a pharmacy, X-ray
equipment, a laboratory, and mobile motion picture equipment supplied by the
Main Council of the Macedonian Red Cross. The Macedonian Council for People's
Health and Social Welfare has allotted 2~ million dinars for the group's work.
OP to 20 July 1952, they had examined about 10,000 persons in slightly
more than one month and m^.de about 1,000 laboratory analyses of blood, urine,
and sputum. They had also analyzed water from over 160 sources.
Two medical assistants, who precede the group to?every municipality
(opstina), visit every home in it and seek out the sick. They assemble data
on the type of homes in which the people live, where they sleep, what they
eat, and are also interested in the habits and auperatitiona of the people.
In Rakotinci, they uncovered a minor epidemic of smallpox and one of dysentry
in Grupcin.
The villagers, who include many Albanians, are doing everything possible
to facilitate the groups work. Albanian villagers in Oras,je cut s road through
the forest so that X-ray equipment could be moved in, The inhabitants of
Sipkovica laid a 2-kilometer-long electric line to provide power for the X-ray
power unit.
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Major Doctor Dunic and Dr Katie srr_nt a whole day in the mountain village
of Prvice, which has 28 homes and had never been visited by a doctor. The entire
group did not visit the village because of the poor condition of the roads,
Besides physical examinations, the ~~ctors give advice and immediate aid to
the sick, dispense free medicine, and Neal;ome people to hoaptials. Their efforts
are also directe3 aga.'nst superstition end bachaardness. In Oras,je, the Turkish
kho,ja teaches the villagers that it is unnecessary to kill lice, for they will
have still more of thew in the next world.(7)
The 1~~ May 1952 issue of Po:itika described the.exhibita that the Institute
for the Health Education of Serbia has set up in two railroad cars, one for
standard-gauge tracks and one for narrow-gauge tracks. These cars are to visit
most of Serbia. The exhibit is described as follows:
The exhibit in the standard-gouge railroad car illustrates the basic princi-
ples governing:iealth and sanitation which are the best protection against tuber-
culosis. The salutary effects of fresh air, sunshine, and pure water are empha-
sized as being important factors conducive to good health. The exhibit also con-
sists of materials relating to rwthers and children, such as various contagious
diseases especially dangerous for small children, delusions and superstitions
which are still practiced by mothers in raising and caring for children, and the
correct feeding of infants and small children.
The narrow-gauge railroad car has been converted into a consultation room
for pregnant women and young mothers, where they are instructed how to take care
of themselves during pregnancy, what to have ready for childbirth, and how to take
care of a newly born child. Pregnant women and young mothers are also to have
lectures by expert midwives who accompany the exY.ibit. The exhibit Ls also
furnished with materials showing the practical and proper care of infants :.ad
small children.(8)
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An article signed by Atena Mi?lunic in the 16 June 1952 issued of the anti-
Tito Nova Borba states that in general, Tito's Health Service does not serve
the work ngi~people today, Iri Zagreb, Sp11t, Ri,Jeka, and Osijek, there are 950
doctors while there are only 600 doctors is the rest oP Croatia,
Nov~gorb_ pointed out that it is difficult to say what endangers and
destroys the health oP the Yugoslav people, whether it is mass hunger; the 311-
nesses of youth, farmera,'and workers in production, excessive work hours; or
absence of any health safeguards on the job, The number of accidents at work
has increased so much recently that nothing in the rest of the world compares
with it. The physical exhaustion of workers and the decreases in health safe-
guards on the job resulted in 1,800 deaths in 1951. Serious accidents on the
job which required hospital. treatment amounted to 62,000 in Slovenia in 1951;
over,3,000 such accidents occur monthly in Croatia, In 1951, 18 miners were
killed in the Bor mine, and 1,1+71 were seriously hurt, In Zenica there were
900 industrial accidents in the Pirat 20 days of Msrch 1952?
In Bosnia, according to P,ova_Borba. disrPgarci Por the most basic require-
ments for the people s health reaches catastrophic proportions. Kladanj,,
Klenovnik, Kl,iuc, Posusje, Stolac, Samac, and Kiseljak erezes have no doctor.
Leven erezes with an average of 40,000 to 50,000 inhabitants have one doctor
~ach~, while 20 srezes in Bosnia-Herzegovina have no pharmacist, and ten
erezes have no drug store. In Zenica, an Industrial area inhabited almost
exclusively by 33,000 workers, there is not even the moat elementary sanitation
docto~rsaln Zenica,awhere antaveraa sofa~200 terns and no roads. There are eight
examination. The town hospital which ~ Pers?na report daily Por medical
section, requires the services of three dretorsgwho mustavorktatnleastd101hours
orae aituhationeexiats incotheraindustrial placeeesuch0as~uzlataVaressimilar or
Zavidovici, and the like.
Nova Borba goes on to say that while there is no concern over the people's
health in the towns where moat of the uorkera live, the 2ltoista sre opening s
180-bed hosptial near the Belgrade hippodrome for the exclusive use oP members
of the UDB (Uprava drzavne bezb,jednoati, Administration of State Security),(q)
Health Establishments and Aasocintlona
The 3 February 1952 issue of Borba discussed Zagreb hospitals as Pollowa;
Zagreb has 27 hospitals, three of which are genera: hospitals, nine are special
hospitals, and 15 are clinical hospitals. The general hospitals have a total
of 27 departments, with the Dr Mladen Stojanovlc General Hospital on Vinograd
Ulica having 14 of these departments. OP the special hospitals, two are Por
tubercular adults, one for tubercular children, one for mental and nervous
diseases, one Por traumatic cases, one for contagious diseases, one for diagnosis,
one for children's surgery, and one na a day sanitarium f'or tubercular
Of a total oP 5,882 beds in all Zagreb hospitals, the special hospitals have ?_g416
beds; the general hospitals, 1,942 bed,; and the clinics, 1,524 beds.
In 1951, these hospitals treated about 65,000 patients. General hospitals
treated 32,684 patients, the average hospitalization period being 17 days. About
20,000 patients were treated in the clinical hospitals, and 10,000 in the special
hospitals. The hospital Pnr contagious diseases treated about 4 000
Of the general hospitals, the Dr Mladen Stojanovic Hospital treated theil.argeat
number of patients. The mortality rate was 2,3 percent in the general hospitals,
3.8,percent in the special hospitals, and 4,5 percent in the clinical hospitals.
About 50 percent of all patients in Zagreb hospitals were treated under the
social security program.
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Medical service in these hospitals was given by 310 doctors, assisted by
984 medical personnel trained oa an elementary level and 150 trained on a
secondary level.(10)
The same paper, on the 4th of May reported the opening of a nex hospital
as Yollaxa: On 13 May~the Eighth anniversary of the founding of the UDB, the
new :ioapital of the federal Ministry of the Interior, was opened in Belgrade.
It will bear the name of Dr Dragisa Mislovic, famed hero and Communist who
vats killed in 1931? The hospital is equipped with the most modern medical
equ{+~ment. It has 180 beds and four departments; surgical, internal medicine,
X-rah, and gynecological-maternit}:, Prinrlty for admission to the hospital is
given to employees of the Ministry of the laterior~ but other townspeople will
also be admitted.(11)
The Blood Transfusion Bureau at fto 39 3veti Sava Ulica in Belgrade, the
largest establishment of its kind in Yugoslavia, is described as follows in the
~ MaY 1952 issue of Polltika:
From the liberation until 1 January 1952, 76,310 citizens have voluntarily
donated 35,423 liters of blood at the bureau. Its 65 employees make certain that
all Belgrade hospitals and clinics have a constant supply of blood.
All voluntnry donors are compensated by food and bonds or money. Recently,
a farmer, a worker, and a housewife donated blood free of charge, the first to be
eo donated since 1945.
The cleanliness and arrangement of the bureau's tvobuildings can serve as an
example to medical establishments in Belgrade. Monthly, the bureau sends 600
liters oP whole and part blood to clinics any hospitals that need it. The blood
ie processed rapidly in the most modern equipment. However, there have been
harmful reactions in patients because of rapid processing, because flanks con-
taining blood are carried to clinics in pockets, purses, or baskets, where they
may be exposed to contamination, or blood is poured into contaminated flasks when
it is being administered. To eliminate such conditions, the bureau has made
special cheats for carrying the flasks and has developed equipment for admin-
Sstering blood. Such equipment i,s now being successfully manufact?red by the
'Sut~eska" Medical Equipment Factory (Fabrika medicinskih ured,7a~a "Sut~eaka"),
However, the clinics do not always give it proper care.
Although the Belgrade bureau is doing excellent xork and !e doing research,
similar bureaus throughout Serbia are not functioning properly. There are local
blood transfusion stations in Novi 9ed, iSragu~evac, and Nia, and aubstntions Sn
Zren,7enin, Za~ecar, Cupri,Ja, Koaov9k,3 Mitrovica, Kresevac, and Cacak. Except
for the station is Kragu,jevac and tb.e substation in Zren,janin, ail are doing very
poor if any, work. This is due to insu: ac.ent space and Equipment, as well es
to personnel with only an elementary or secondary medical education.
Since blood transfusion i.s not recognized as a specialty by medical science,
young doctors aeaire to sYecialize in other work. The number xorking on blood
processing in Serbia can b_~ :ounted on the fingers. Until this question is
resolved, problems ine'olving blood transfusion will continue to recur.(12)
The 4 September 1952 issue of g to itlkn reported as folloxs on new equipment
for processing and storing blood which as been received .by the bureau from UNICEF:
Consisting of about 80 crates xeighing 40 tons, the equipment vas shipped by
the "Edward" Factory in London, whose engineers will also assemble it. The
material received includes refrigerators which are the largest of their kind in
Yugoslavia, and have their own compressors and motors. They can store large
quantities oP blood at proper temperatures and contain special equipment for
deep i~eezing.
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The moat valuable piece of equipment received is a drier xhich can dry 250
flasks of ,blood at the same time, or about 2,000 flasks in a week. The blood
this haecnot been possibleapreviously~~inceYblo'ad procesaeduinathis mannerpean ,
be used several years?later vlthout having lost any of its effectiveness, 1t can
be used is the most remote areas of Yugoslavia.
AfEer,the sex equipment ie assembled, in 6 to 8 reeks, the bureau viii be
among the moat modern of its kind in Europe,(13)
In Borba of 8 liay.1952, the vork of the Serbian Medical Association, one of the
oldest associations in Y~,goslavia xhich is observing its 80th anaivereay in 1952,
vsa discussed ae folloxe:
The association has been greatly concerned with the conquest of endemic
syphilis sad tuberculosis. Besides establishing a phthisiology department, it has
establiehed.a phthisiology society and an antituberculosis league. The
association has established a netxcrk of antituberculosis dispensaries for m9ss
education in tuberculosis, A separate section has done research in child health
and children's diseases,
At present, the association has more than 2,000 members; its vork la
distributed among more than 18 professional departments, It has 32 branches Sn
Serbia which work independently.
The most active branches are in Hovi Sad, Nis, Kragu~evac, and Zren,~eain.
Constant contact ie maintained between the branches and the Administration of the
Serbian Medical Association. Doctors from the interior come to professional
meetings, make reports, and exchange experiences. Doctors from Belgrade travel
to the interior, give lectures, and in other xays'asaiet branches. The
assoc~ation'e 18 professional departments include most of the apecialiste in
Yugoslavia.
The People's Medical University wan established recently in conjunction
with the Institute for the Health Education of Serbia. Lectures at the university
are attended by members of trade unions, students from the Secondary Medical
School, the Dental Technical School, and the Midvives' School.
The Serbian Medical Association cooperates with the Advanced Medical School.
Medical students in large number attend professional lectures organized by the
aseociation.(14)
1.? Belgrade, Politika, 12 Jul 52
2. Zagreb, Borba, 31 May 52
3? It+id., 22 Jun 52
4. Belgrade, Politika, 13 Jul 52
". Zagreb, Borba, 12 May 52
~? Ibid., 5 Jun 52
7. Ibid., 20 Jul 52
8. Belgrade, Politika, 14 May 52
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Belgrade, Folitika, 12 MaY 52'
Ibid., 4 8eP 52
Zagreb, Borba, 8 Aigy 52
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