The introduction of 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last seven months, as well as shortage of basic commodities in the north of Kosovo over the last couple of days affect the work of the Hospital Centre in Mitrovica North, Director of the Center Milan Ivanovic said, Radio KIM reports.
Clinic and Health Centre in Mitrovica North received yesterday humanitarian aid related to medical material, Director of the Centre, Milan Ivanovic told Radio kontakt plus.
“After the problems to get medicaments, due to hampering acts by Pristina, thus disabling an adequate medical treatment of our patients, yesterday on 12 December, necessary medical material from our state of Serbia arrived and it was received as humanitarian aid,” Ivanovic said, underlining that “taxes are not paid for the humanitarian deliveries.”
The Kosovo government gave donation of €242,356 to the Hospital Centre in North Mitrovica for medical supplies on Wednesday, Avni Arifi announced, emphasizing that „there is no humanitarian crisis“ in Kosovo due to the introduction of taxes for products from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgrade-based news agency Beta reported, citing Arifi’s announcement on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Director of the Hospital Centre Mitrovica Nort, Milan Ivanovic, however, refuted Arifi’s claims, TV Most and Tanjug reported.
Director of Mitrovica North Health Centre Milan Ivanovic told RTS Pristina’s threats can not scare Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, and he expects the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would nevertheless visit Kosovo.
Speaking for the RTS morning news edition, Ivanovic said Kadri Veseli with his statements, tries to show that he controls the situation in the entire Kosovo and Metohija, including the north, adding that Veseli also tries to cause problems and destabilization.
Mitrovica North Clinical-Health Centre Director, Milan Ivanovic told TV Most today there are 4 to 5 times more patients at the Oncology Ward in the hospital than before.
Ivanovic welcomed the decision of the Serbian Assembly to establish a Commission that would investigate the consequences of the 1999 NATO bombardment of Serbia, adding it is in interest of patients to know the real truth and undertake necessary measures.
32 citizens present in and outside of “Mitrovica Dvor” building at the moment of arrest of Marko Djuric were injured, Mitrovica Hospital Centre Director, Milan Ivanovic told Serbian media.
“13 citizens were admitted and examined at surgery ward, 17 at ophthalmological ward and 2 at orthopaedic ward,” Ivanovic said, adding that injured persons were released for home treatment as per their decisions.
Director of the Hospital in Mitrovica North Dr. Milan Ivanovic confirmed to Kontakt plus radio that the outpatient clinic was stoned in Suvi Do.
According to Ivanovic, glass of the windows and entrance doors were broken.
The health station of Mitrovica Health Centre, located in the mixed settlement Suvi Do, nearby Mitrovica North was demolished last night and currently is not working, KIM Radio reported.
This is the second attack against this health station over the last month.
“It is obvious the attack is ethnically motivated aiming to deny Serbs access to health. The ultimate goal is to ethnically cleanse this part of Mitrovica North municipality,” Health and Medical Centre Director in Mitrovica North, Milan Ivanovic told BETA news agency.