Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
Ostalo
Organization of the Slavonski Brod Medical center during the 1991-1992 war
Ivan Balen
Nevenka Benović
Sažetak
Medical tradition in Slavonski Brod is about 300 years old. From the beggining of the 18th century there was in the town Military hospital with pharmacy and mortuary. In the Military hospital civilians were cured as well. After Military Frontier had been abolished Civil hospital was founded. Medical service was organized in so called Medical centre which incorporated all services: primary protection and hospital. The hospital in Slavonski Brod is one of the bigger in Croatia. Before homeland war it contained 800 beds and developed all specialist services. There were modern diagnostics with endoscopic, supersonic vibrations, laboratory, X-rays even computorized tomography services. There were adequate number of experts, too. Out of hospital services are: general medicine, labour medicine, medicine for school children, epidemiology, dentistry and First-aid services. During the homeland war in Croatia, hospital and out-of hospital services didn’t bear remarkable destroying and they could work normally behind the front lines in Slavonia. Hard circumstances began with the outburst of the war in Bosnia in March 1992. From this time on the hospital functions only in cellars and works with half a capacity. About 300 beds is always prompt for the needs of war surgery and Intensive care service. All the services of the Primary health prevention of the Medical centre adapted their work to war conditions. The majority of services worked in reserve departments. In majorty of cases they were situated in cellars of children day-care centres in areas out of enemy’s reach. Out-of-hospital services were dislocated so that they were nearer to possible patients to lessen the risk of wounding and killing them from enemy gun attacks. Although in difficult conditions, medical staff did all that was needed to give full medical care to patients and other inhabitants of our community. In artillery attacks on the Medical centre four people perished (two of them were our workers) and three were wounded (two were our workers, too). There were big damages on hospital buildings and out ofhospital departments in the town and in the countryside. The victims of the war came every day to Medical centre and up to August 28th, 1992, there were 5910 patients of which 665 perished and 5245 wounded. Of the total number of wounded there were 21,3% civilians, and the percentage of deceased civilians was even bigger. In our town more than 75% dead were civilians and even 20 of them were children younger of 15 years. All that is only a partial number of war victims in Posavina because many wounded and perished were not accepted in our Medical centre.
Ključne riječi
war; hospital organization; organization of primary health care
Hrčak ID:
195225
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.12.1992.
Posjeta: 1.306 *