Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 23 No. (3-4), 1991.
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Destruction of medical services in Slavonia and Baranja during the war against Croatia (till the end of 1991)
Antun Tucak
Krešimir Glavina
Vesna Bosanac
Juraj Njavro
Ivica Matoš
Dražen Švagelj
Romano Tripalo
Zdenka Barišić
Zlatko Mihaldinec
Jasenka Markeljević
Zdravko Lacković
Abstract
During the war against Croatia health services in the Slavonia and Baranya region suffered the greatest damage. Medical centers and hospitals in Vukovar, Vinkovci, Pakrac and Nova Gradiška and the rehabilitation centers in Lipik and Daruvar were practically levelled to the ground; the General Hospital in Osijek and the Health Centre in Daruvar were both heavily demaged. The line of aggression against Croatia can be precisely recognised by the damaged and demolished hospitals. Casualties of enemy attacks on hospitals in Estern Slavonia among the medical staff are: 4 killed, 12 injured, two doctors missing; 5 patients were killed too. Total damage is estimated at 360 mill. DEM. Hospitals were working as long as it was possible, until the very moment of ocuppation. Till the end of 1991 about 7000 wounded (among them 50 YFA soldiers) were treated in the damaged and demolished hospital basements and shelters, often under permenent enemy artillery and aircraft attacks. All health services were properly marked by the Red Cross sign. Their number itself, the fact that some hospitals (General Hospital in Osijek, for instance) were attached from thir very neighbourhood; the use of precise artillery and aircraft weapons; attaching civilian hospitals rather than millitary targets - all this proves that in the war against Croatia irregular Serbian troops, even the Federal Army, deliberatly destroyed hospitals in spite of the protection provided by a series of international humanitarian conventions.
Keywords
Croatia; hospitals; war; destruction
Hrčak ID:
195965
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1991.
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