Special hospital Cigota opposes privatization

Special hospital Cigota should not be privatized in the way the privatizations have been carried out so far in Serbia because it would be harmful for the patients, director of this health institution, Aleksandar Simic, said for Tanjug.

Special hospital Cigota in Zlatibor which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, operates at satisfactory level and did not go bankrupt or restructuring, Simic underlines.

He reminds that this hospital hosts patients from west Serbia who suffer from hyper thyreosis, thyreosis cancer.

Cigota employs 217 people, 80 of them medical staff and only 12 people is at the list of the Ministry of health while the others get salaries from their own funds.

It has 350 beds 73 of which for patients.

In obesity treatment, Cigota 2 has been generating an increase of 20% users more and it also hosts patients from Australia and UAE.

It has been six years now that the hospital is implementing kids ‘obesity prevention treatment called Cigotica covered by the Ministry of Health.

- Cigota is also a scientific base for the Medical Faculty in Belgrade where specialists host patients every weekend in Zlatibor. We also cooperate with the Faculty of Medicine from Foca and their students have practice in nuclear medicine in Cigota – Simic says.

He points out that so far there have been no talks with the interested buyers for the special hospital Cigota in Zlatibor which is with the decision of the Higher Court delegated to the Pension and Disabled Fund which participated In its construction and which in 2007 when the Government announced privatization halted it with a prosecution which ended at court.