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Vučić tours Tiršova 2 construction site: "65,000 square meters for all the children of Serbia" VIDEO

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić visited the ongoing renovation and refurbishment works at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Belgrade. He then visited the construction site of the new University Children’s Hospital “Tiršova 2.”

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Vučić tours Tiršova 2 construction site: "65,000 square meters for all the children of Serbia" VIDEO
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić visited today the construction site of the University Children’s Hospital “Tiršova 2,” saying that it looks beautiful and that it will be the largest children’s hospital in Southeast Europe.

“This facility will be completed by Vidovdan next year, and that will be a major step forward,” Vučić said after touring the construction site of the University Children’s Hospital “Tiršova 2.”

“I believe that children here will receive the best possible care and treatment. We will have the best doctors and the most beautiful hospital in this part of Europe,” the Serbian president said.

“Prokuplje will also get a magnificent hospital. People will no longer have to travel to Niš and Leskovac. We are also renovating hospitals in Leskovac and Vranje, while Niš will get a new maternity hospital,” Vučić said, adding that there had not been this much construction since the Second World War.

“65,000 square meters for all the children of Serbia and the region—the largest children’s hospital in Southeast Europe,” Vučić said, adding that he was very pleased with the progress regarding medicines.

“Yesterday, 1,925 [patients] received medicines, and today there will be at least three times as many. Innovative cancer medicines are arriving at hospitals in October,” Vučić added, saying they are among the most innovative and best medicines in the world.

“We are saving the lives of our people,” he stressed.

“The Clinical Centre of Serbia is a much larger investment. We will soon be opening new sections there,” Vučić said in response to journalists’ questions about the scale of investments in healthcare facilities.

Director of the University Children’s Hospital Siniša Dučić said the new hospital would introduce a new, modern approach to treating children.

“Excellent conditions for patients and their parents. The most modern diagnostics, with everything that can be done in one place. Compared with Tiršova 1, another advantage is that we will have sterile rooms, as well as sterile rooms for burn patients and immunocompromised patients,” Dučić said.

The president stressed that never in the history of Belgrade had so much been done.

“What could be better than seeing the maternity hospital earlier and now seeing Tiršova 2—the largest children’s hospital in Southeast Europe, equipped with the most modern technology? We have good doctors and hardworking people. The care provided to children will be much better. I’m also happy that things are going well with the medicines,” Vučić said.

“Maternity hospitals are of crucial importance,” President Vučić stressed.

Tour of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics: “Everything to be completed by March 2028”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić also visited today the ongoing renovation and refurbishment works at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, saying that efforts would be made to complete the first phase by the end of the year and the second phase by March 2028.

Representatives of the contractor told President Vučić during the tour that they would try to complete all the work by the end of 2027, to which the president replied that it would be fantastic.

Vučić tours Tiršova 2 construction site: 65,000 square meters for all the children of Serbia VIDEO
TANJUG/ JADRANKA ILIĆ

According to the contractors, 60 percent of the work in the first phase has been completed so far, and the phase could be finished by the end of October. The president recalled that the clinic was built between 1946 and 1963 and had gone 63 years without any major renovation.

Vučić added that the equipment for Tiršova 2 would cost between €30 million and €40 million, while Minister for Public Investments Darko Glišić said that some of the equipment had already been purchased and that the remaining equipment would cost €20 million to €25 million.

Vučić stressed that Belgrade would finally have a maternity hospital that is clean, well-maintained and pleasant.

“We want every mother to want to come back to this maternity hospital. Once we complete the work at Bežanijska Kosa—in fact, once we move the hospital from Narodni Front—we will have all maternity hospitals in Belgrade renovated and properly equipped”.

“As for the Niš maternity hospital, we need to launch a public procurement process in the coming days and start the work. That will cover the entire south and east of Serbia, and then we will focus on everything we can do in Vojvodina. Novi Sad is in good shape, but that is not the case in other places. We need to build better maternity hospitals in Kragujevac and many other places as well,” Vučić said.

He added that work must begin at the Clinical Centre in Kragujevac and that projects in Novi Pazar and Užice also need to move forward.

Minister Glišić said that the hospital in Prokuplje would be completed by the end of the year, with heating and cooling systems still to be finished. He added that the hospital in Kraljevo would also be completed and that the first phase of construction of the hospital in Kikinda had begun.

The director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Stefanović, said that the maternity ward rooms were mostly designed as single and double rooms, with fewer triple rooms.

“Each room will have its own bathroom, which will provide significantly greater comfort for patients, especially for pregnant women who sometimes stay here for a long time, even several months. It is extremely important for them to feel at least somewhat like they do at home,” Stefanović said.

He added that the clinic is a tertiary-care facility where the most serious cases are treated, including pregnant women from across Serbia and some countries in the region.

“So it is extremely important that we have the best equipment. We already have the staff, and we need the best equipment, as well as comfort for patients who will spend longer periods here and for those who are critically ill and whose lives are at risk,” Stefanović stressed.

He added that both neonatal and adult intensive care units are being renovated.

“These are precisely the most serious patients from across Serbia,” Stefanović emphasized.

Stefanović also said that medical staff are no longer leaving the country as they once did.

“Ten or more years ago, many doctors were leaving. Now that has decreased, and such cases are almost isolated. We have 491 employees here, including 142 doctors and 321 nurses. We are a little understaffed and should have more personnel. Recruitment competitions are being announced constantly,” Stefanović said.

Work on the clinic building began on September 10, 2025, with the project valued at 4.6 billion dinars. The works are scheduled to last two years and involve the complete renovation and refurbishment of the facility in order to improve treatment and care conditions for women, pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. The project covers an area of 21,600 square meters.

The hospital will have 540 beds, including 363 for adults and 177 for babies, as well as 15 day-hospital beds and nine delivery rooms.

The Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University Clinical Centre of Serbia was built between 1946 and 1963. The hospital has undergone several extensions and partial renovations over the years.

In 2018, the flat roof was renovated and some of the elevators were refurbished, while medical and non-medical equipment was purchased in 2019.

To ensure the facility’s long-term functionality, the renovation project includes bringing the building into line with modern healthcare standards and improving working conditions, as well as patient and staff comfort and hygiene. The number of patients per room will be reduced, with most rooms designed as single, double or triple rooms and, in most cases, equipped with private bathrooms—something that was not previously the case.

The project also provides for increased capacity for minimally invasive day procedures through the construction of two new operating rooms.

The project is being financed through a loan from the Council of Europe Development Bank, with several contractors involved in the works.

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