RS minister of Health and Social Protection visited Surgery of the University Hospital of Banja Luka Clinic Centre
RS Minister of Health and Social Protection Dragan Bogdanic paid a visit to University Hospital of Banja Luka Clinic Centre on 2 September 2014. During his visit to the Hospital, Minister Bogdanic, Acting General Director of the Hospital Mirko Stanetic and Assistant General Director for Medical Affairs Nikola Bojic visited Urgent Clinic of the Hospital, Clinic for General and Abdominal Surgery, Clinic for Anaestesia and Intensive Care, Clinic for Traumatology and Clinic for Orthopaedics. During the visit to the Hospital, Minister Bogdanic got information about work of mentioned clinics, and talked with patients about their health condition and treatment in the Hospital. Doctors presented the cases of the patients and further plans for treatment, and Head of the Clinic for Abdominal Surgery Milan Simatovic put accent on one-day surgery which is in use for over 2 decades in all developed countries, which provides savings, but also benefits for the patients, their rest, and better efficiency of the hospitals.
Doctor Aleksandra Dominovic from the Clinic for Neurology successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic “Ice Bucket Challenge-ALS”, at Medical Faculty in Banja Luka. According to Doctor Dominovic, University Hospital of Banja Luka Clinic Centre was always providing treatment for the patients diseased from ALS.
IUpon initiative of the employees of the Department for Technical Services of the University Hospital of Banja Luka Clinic Centre, general inspection and cleansing of sewage systems and water management systems in the object and its surrounding area has been initiated in Banja Luka. Special vehicles for sewage and water management system cleansing has been engaged in order to perform this job. At the same time, the teams engaged on this project are working on cleaning and disinfection of basement area of 1200 square meters. 20 employees of the Department for Technical Services and its various bodies are engaged on realization of the activities.
By procurement and installation of the object for medical waste disposal, University Hospital of Banja Luka Clinic Centre solved three very important problems: disposal and storage of antitumor drugs, chemical and pharmaceutical waste in adequate way which is aligned with the law and to storage the samples for pathohistological analysis, from the Institute for Pathology. In each clinic which gets in touch with antitumor waste, there are adequate bags to deliver the waste materials. When they are filled to the level of 2/3, the bags are being transported to the places for non-harmful removal.
Standard procedure for work of the ethical committee of the clinical center (kc)