According to the story aired last night, the victims had been taken to Serbia and Montenegro after which they were brought back to Croatia and executed in the then Serb-occupied Vukovar region.
The ministry said in the statement that it received information in 1993 according to which some of the injured people from the hospital were taken to the Novi Sad hospital after the fall of Vukovar, after which they disappeared without trace.
The former and the incumbent managers of the Novi Sad hospital, Djordje Janjic and Dragomir Damjanov, on Monday dismissed the media allegations that the hospital treated 187 injured Croatians, who went missing in early 1992.
According to Belgrade-based B 92 Radio, Damjanov told Beta news agency that these statements were media fabrications.
"I told a female reporter from Croatian Radio Television that, in accordance withe the Hippocratic Oath, every wounded persons was treated in our hospital, regardless of their nationality, but I never mentioned the number of injured Croatians. I never counted wounded Croatian people, but there were no more than four or five of them," he said.