Cancer patients in wards with no heating

B92 has learned that patients suffering from cancer have for weeks been forced to stay in cold rooms.

Izvor: B92

Tuesday, 23.10.2007.

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B92 has learned that patients suffering from cancer have for weeks been forced to stay in cold rooms. The temperature inside Belgrade's Oncology and Radiology Clinic at no point exceeds 14 degrees centigrade, which has led to the already seriously ill patients developing other diseases. Cancer patients in wards with no heating There is no heating at all in the radiation wards, where patients must receive therapy wearing no clothes. Reacting to the news, the institution's director Nenad Borojevic says the management of the clinic is "acquainted with the problems," but that the reconstruction of the heating system, due to have been completed last summer, has not finished. He told reporters that the cancer patients will have to stay in freezing rooms for seven more days, "until the heating system stabilizes." When Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic (G17 Plus) recently presented his first 100 days in office, the construction of the new heating system for Serbia's Clinical Center featured prominently among the ministry's "achievements". But it now seems that presentation, and the recent tour Milosavljevic had at the clinic, was simply to visit the site of one of the largest investments, knowing it will not be completed in time to provide patients suffering from the most serious illnesses with the comfort they are entitled to.

Cancer patients in wards with no heating

There is no heating at all in the radiation wards, where patients must receive therapy wearing no clothes.

Reacting to the news, the institution's director Nenad Borojević says the management of the clinic is "acquainted with the problems," but that the reconstruction of the heating system, due to have been completed last summer, has not finished.

He told reporters that the cancer patients will have to stay in freezing rooms for seven more days, "until the heating system stabilizes."

When Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević (G17 Plus) recently presented his first 100 days in office, the construction of the new heating system for Serbia's Clinical Center featured prominently among the ministry's "achievements".

But it now seems that presentation, and the recent tour Milosavljević had at the clinic, was simply to visit the site of one of the largest investments, knowing it will not be completed in time to provide patients suffering from the most serious illnesses with the comfort they are entitled to.

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