ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - A group of journalists from the Croatian Journalists' Society reporting on health and medicine in Croatia on Wednesday rejected accusations directed against them in a Declaration on the Protection of Dignity
written by Croatian doctors which appeared, as a paid advertisement, in some daily newspapers on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - A group of journalists from the Croatian
Journalists' Society reporting on health and medicine in Croatia on
Wednesday rejected accusations directed against them in a
Declaration on the Protection of Dignity written by Croatian
doctors which appeared, as a paid advertisement, in some daily
newspapers on Wednesday. #L#
The Declaration, written at the First General Assembly of Croatian
Doctors last Saturday, demands that reporters stop portraying
doctors as lazy, unqualified, inhumane people and enemies of the
state. The doctors also demanded that misinformation about the
status of doctors and media lynching against them launched by the
Health Minister be stopped.
"We sharply protest and condemn your allegations of media lynching
that is being directed by someone," an open letter by the group of
journalists forwarded to the Croatian Doctors' Union, the Medical
Faculty and other medical societies that organised the General
Assembly on Saturday, said.
Reporters truthfully and independently presented information on a
recent doctors' strike and other events in the health system and as
always presented the attitudes of both sides, the reporters said in
their letter.
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