Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
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The Požega hospital during the war in Croatia
Antun Rukavina
Željko Glavić
Josip Fajdić
Dujo Gverić
Ljubo Begić
Miljenko Vukoja
Tomislav Vuković
Slavko Mustapić
Josip Perše
Damir Šimleša
Ivica Mihelčić
Abstract
The Požega Hospital worked in war conditions from the midlle of the August 1991. Up to now, it is one of the very rare hospitals that were not damaged. Spacious cellars enabled relatively secure work and the accomodation of cca 150 beds. During the war 589 wounded from Požega and other battlefields were accepted and treated. Half of the wounded (50%) were injured by explosive weapons and this is one of the characteristics of this war. 49 inhabitants of Požega lost their lives on Croatian battlefields. 10 of them died after they were accepted to the hospital; six of them during the first hour after the receipt and four in first three days. The majority of the wounded were polytraumatic cases. The most often limbs were injured (73,9%), upon that thoracic cage, head and belly. As the war had been diminishing, the hospital in Požega became the foot-hold for the neighbourning communities of Slavonski Brod and Nova Gradiška and others in taking care of the wounded from the rest of battlefields in the Sava valley. The hospital took care on other sick people who were not cured in the hospitals in their towns.
Keywords
war; hospital; organisation; therapy (treatment)
Hrčak ID:
195292
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1992.
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