Health

All doctors from the Emergency Care unit in Sofia have resigned collectively.

The medics are holding a protest at the Health Ministry, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

Arabs and Ukrainians interested in Galenika Pharmaceuticals

The Julphar, an Arab pharmaceutical company and the Arterium Corporation of Ukraine are interested in strategic partnership with the Galenika a.d., the Blic learns.

BELGRADE - Water supplied by the Belgrade Waterworks is of satisfying quality, safe to drink and as good as it was before the floods, Director of the City Institute of Public Health Slobodan Tosovic has told Tanjug.

Water is being inspected at pumping stations, storage tanks, terminal points, but not all samples are being taken at all sites on the same day, Tosovic said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Most flood-hit areas in Serbia have been cleaned up to remove the carcasses of animals killed in the floods, while the rescued animals are under veterinary supervision and there is no danger of disease outbreaks, director of Serbia's Veterinary Directorate Dejan Bugarski said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Chief-of-staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic has presented a gold plaque of the Serbian Armed Forces to the Military Medical Academy (VMA) on its 170th anniversary.

One in three Greek children is overweight or obese, according to a new report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which found that Greece, Italy, Slovenia and the US have the highest levels of child obesity among the OECD’s 34 member countries.

Nihad Bojadzic, the former deputy commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, is challenged over his statements about the killing of 22 Croats in the village of Trusina.

Three dead, three seriously injured in crash

NOVI PAZAR -- Three persons died while three others were seriously injured in a traffic accident in the town of Novi Pazar early on Monday.

The Hygeia group has agreed to take over the running of the Henri Dunant hospital in Athens, which ran into serious financial problems.

Hygeia issued a statement thanking the hospital and Piraeus Bank, its main creditor, for handing it the institution’s management.

The Henri Dunant hospital has 37 clinics and four intensive care units and is run as a non-profit organization.

BELGRADE - The health situaton is stable in the flooded areas of Serbia where people are beginning to return, State Secretary for Health Berislav Vekic said on Monday, stressing that the shelters for those who had been evacuated were under constant monitoring.