Jaundice in the municipality of Prokuplje
Source: B92
Date: 2.10. 2007.
Jaundice epidemic is acclaimed in the municipality of Prokuplje, after five Roma children got jaundice in the village Žitni Potok. Representatives of epidemiological department in the settlement Vašarište in the village Žitni Potok near Prokuplje said that five Roma children got jaundice as they were in contact among each other.
According to the head of epidemiological department in the medical center of Prokuplje Zoran Cvetanović, the center took all necessary measures to prevent spreading of jaundice. However, it cannot be claimed for certain that the disease would not spread anyway.
Last year there was a jaundice epidemic in the municipality in Prokuplje. There were 75 cases of jaundice recorded until March this year.
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Action plan for health care of Roma stipulates that the Board of Minority Rights Center and of the National Council of Roma National Minority is competent for monitoring. The Board for The Board for Health Care was formed on 15 February 2005, supported by the Fund for an Open Society. The first meeting of the Board was attended, in addition to the board members, by representative of the Ministry of Health Djorde Stojiljkovic, Roma Secretariat chief Tinda Kovac and Office representative of Strategy for Poverty Reduction Aleksandra Jovic. The Board prepared recommendation that were sent to the Ministry of Health and a letter for the minister of health Dr Tomica Milosavljevic.
The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia sent the budget proposal to the Ministry of Finance. The budget proposal stipulated 60 million dinars for implementation of Action plans for improvement of Roma health. The proposal comprised the following areas: Research of health condition of Roma populaton (8 million dinars); improvement of health care among Roma (50 million dinars); program of education for realization of the right to health care (2 million dinars).
It is expected that specific activities of the Ministry of Health regarding implementation of Action plans for improvement of Roma health will be launched this year.
Current issues
At the meeting of the working group for health care of Roma, which was held on 22 March 2006, cooperation with the representative of the Ministry of Health, Dr Đorđe Stojiljković, was established. He is the person responsible for implementation of the action plan for health care within the Ministry. On this occassion the Ministry of Health gave recommendations for further activities concerning implementation of these programs.
The Ministry of Health also received a list of Roma non-governmental organizations that should cooperate with regional health care institutes during implementation of the programs aimed at inclusion of Roma in the existing health care system.
Additional information is expected at the beginning of May.
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