RETROSPECTIVE 2014 - Investments in HEALTHCARE that attracted greatest attention of eKapija users
We present you the most interesting projects in the category of HEALTHCARE.
Waiting lists in health care are still quite long, the announced unique information system is still far from completed, hospitals and clinics are still lacking, and young doctors still see Germany as a promised land.
However, some things have started improving. December 2014 saw the implantation of the first artificial heart in Serbia and some serious actions taken by the Fund for treating children abroad, while Minister Zlatibor Loncar announced that citizens could go to private practice with a valid health care as early as by the end of 2015. In 2014, cooperation between public and private healthcare sector was in the spotlight all year long, and eKapija dedicated its first Theme Bulletin to this topic.
The year 2014 also saw the formation of the Association of Private Health Facilities and Practices of Serbia which announced the making of ID cards of the private sector and its integration into the state healthcare system. Although it is not a concrete investment, by advocating the recognition of private healthcare sector as equal to the public one - at a professional, functional and administrative level, the new association will help find solutions to problems in the Serbian health care and, thus, also contribute to a better and more rational health care for people in our country.
Investment ideas, announcements and expectations were abundant during the whole last year, but what lacked was their implementation.
It is followed by the opening of factory for producing disposable materials for hemodialysis that German company Fresenius Medical Care opened in early December in Vrsac. Apart from supplying patients in Serbia with equipment for dialysis, the new factory that will employ 15,000 workers will also market its products in Europe. With the opening of this new factory, exports will be doubled and some new products will be launched. Once the factory reaches its full capacity, it will be producing artery-vein systems for over 150,000 patients.
Construction of the Excellence Center in Kragujevac has been announced one more time. As people at the Istrazivanje i razvoj (Research and Development) Project Management Unit (PMU) confirmed to our web portal, the investment story ranking third on our list will enter the implementation phase in April 2015.
"Sumadija Temple of Science" is conceived as a multipurpose facility comprised of three buildings housing several research centers: Stem Cell Research Center (with a stem cell bank), Molecular and Cellular Research Center, Morphological Research Center, Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Research Center, Functional Research Center, and the Center for Priority Research Fields of Biomedicine (with supporting facilities). A total of EUR 20 million will be set aside for the construction and equipping of the Kragujevac University's Excellence Center.
Seven Bridges Genomics (SBG), Serbian-American company headquartered in Belgrade and Boston, received USD 5.8 million to develop a cancer research platform. It is the first platform of this kind in the world and the company got the contract as a part of the initiative of the USA National Cancer Institute for development of "Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot". Quite enough for the fifth place on our list
Sixth-ranked is a growing group of private clinics – Medigroup, which got a new member - the specialized ophthalmology hospital Milos klinika.
Electronic health care cards that have been talked about for years now are the last on this list. According to the latest announcements, citizens of Serbia will have new, electronic instead of paper ones, light green cards as of January 2017. As the authorities say, issuance of electronic cards is the basis for all future projects of electronic sending of patients form one to another institution and other things.
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