WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
– WHO Country Office, Serbia –
Hadzi Melentijeva 30
11000 Belgrade, Serbia

WHO Representative and Head of WHO Office
Dr Marijan Ivanusa
Mon, Jan 18^th, 2021

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Dear colleague,

I believe you are familiar with the information that the Trade Union of doctors and pharmacists of Serbia – SLFS (which is also a member of the European confederation of independent trade unions – CESI) publishes daily data on deceased colleagues who lost their lives in the covid 19 pandemic. Up to this day, we lost 84 of our colleagues (medical doctors, dentistry doctors, and pharmacists) and 32 nurses due to covid 19. Unfortunately, the numbers are rising every day.

We are a small country that entered the covid 19 pandemics with fewer healthcare workers per capita than in European countries because of the ban on hiring healthcare workers that have existed for years. State officials explained such a high number of deceased colleagues by various reasons such as they are infected on coffee breaks, and explanations   “you are soldiers it is normal that you die”, etc.

We are asking you to help in research and analyzing why the mortality rate among doctors is so high.

Thank you for everything you do for healthcare system in Serbia.

In addition, we are sending you our unprocessed data in the graphic display.

Kind regards,

Gorica Djokic MD,MSc, Ph
President of the Main Board- Trade union of doctors and pharmacists of Serbia (SLFS)