Medical students demand accountability for Vucic’s visit to Macedonian patients in ICU

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N1 Belgrade
28. mar. 2025. 19:52
ZLATIBOR LONÈAR I ALEKSANDAR VUÈIÆ
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Students from the Belgrade University School of Medicine have called for action against those responsible at the Emergency Center of the University Clinical Center of Serbia (UKCS) following the visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar, and media crews to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on March 17, 2025, without any protective equipment.

Some of the patients who were severely injured in the March 16 horrific nightclub fire in Kocani, North Macedonia, were transferred to Belgrade for treatment and placed in the ICU at the UKCS Emergency Center.

The entry of a large number of people, including the Serbian President, the outgoing health minister, and media teams into the ICU on March 17, 2025, has violated the dignity, privacy, and health of the critically injured patients, including underage foreign nationals, said the protesting medical students.

They emphasized that these individuals breached numerous hygiene protocols designed to protect patients from risk factors that could seriously compromise their health and lives.

The students, currently staging a blockade at the University of Belgrade School of Medicine, are demanding, among other things, the initiation of accountability proceedings and the dismissal of UKCS Director Jelena Drulovic, UKCS Emergency Center Director Marko Ercegovac, and the Head of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Dusan Micic, for enabling this situation.

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