Health

Bulgarian Sofia Emergency Care staff are protesting against the low salaries and the long-lasting structural problems in their unit again, Monday morning.

Despite the Health Ministry's promise to provide additional emergency care teams and to discuss an eventual pay raise, employees have been protesting all week.

Greeks will soon no longer have to visit their social security funds at regular intervals to validate their health booklets, allowing them to receive free or subsidized healthcare.

A decision signed on Friday by Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis means that each citizen’s social insurance history will be recorded on a common database, known as Atlas.

A seven-year-old boy suffering from a serious liver ailment was flown to Germany for an organ transplant aboard the prime ministerial aircraft late on Thursday, Skai reported, noting that Antonis Samaras gave the order for the transfer once he was informed of the critical condition of the boy's health.

Researchers said June 4 they have found the first direct evidence that the potentially deadly Middle East respiratory virus, or MERS, jumps directly from camels to humans.

The virus has hit Saudi Arabia the hardest, killing 282 people out of 688 infected, according to the latest figures.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar met on Thursday in Belgrade with a delegation of GVM Care and Research, led by the company's Operative Director Dr. Francesco Maringelli.

220 kilos of cocaine seized in Montenegrin port

BAR -- Customs officers in Montenegro's Port of Bar on Thursday found 220 kilograms of cocaine in a container shipped from South America.

According to the media in Podgorica, the drugs were hidden in a container transporting bananas that was "in transit to one of the neighboring countries."

BELGRADE - The UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia Irena Vojackova-Solorano has presented to the Serbian government a report by a team of international experts that warns of health risks in the wake of the recent massive floods.

The UN experts warned of health risks, potential environmental risks as well as of damage caused to agriculture, the UN team in Serbia said.

Obrenovac gets field hospital, more aid distribution centers

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić has said that three more locations for distribution of humanitarian aid would be available to residents of Obrenovac.

BELGRADE - A field hospital, which is part of the Military Medical Academy, started working in a schoolyard in Obrenovac on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense has announced.

This temporary healthcare facility will provide treatments for the citizens living in the flood-affected areas and members of the Serbian Armed Forces and Interior Ministry repairing the damage.

The trial of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Perica Adzic was told that he mistreated sick and wounded people who were being treated at a school in Zepce in 1993.