PULA, Oct 16 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Health Minister Rajko Ostojic on Tuesday said if this day passed with no problems in 44 Croatian haemodialysis centres, one could sighed with relief and state that the situation was consolidated
after the tragic death of 23 kidney patients during and after the treatment last week. Ostojic visited the town of Pula on Tuesday, when a day of mourning was declared in this coastal town due to the death of six patients in the local haemodialysis centre last Saturday. During an extraordinary session of the town council, Ostojic expressed the sincerest condolences to the families of the dead patients. He informed that at 11.15 p.m. Monday a kidney patient, who was undergoing treatment in a haemodialysis centre in Zagreb, collapsed, but doctors succeeded in resuscitating her. This case is not linked to the tragic deaths of several patients last week whom doctors
PULA, Oct 16 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Health Minister Rajko
Ostojic on Tuesday said if this day passed with no problems in 44
Croatian haemodialysis centres, one could sighed with relief and
state that the situation was consolidated after the tragic death of
23 kidney patients during and after the treatment last week.
Ostojic visited the town of Pula on Tuesday, when a day of mourning
was declared in this coastal town due to the death of six patients in
the local haemodialysis centre last Saturday.
During an extraordinary session of the town council, Ostojic
expressed the sincerest condolences to the families of the dead
patients.
He informed that at 11.15 p.m. Monday a kidney patient, who was
undergoing treatment in a haemodialysis centre in Zagreb,
collapsed, but doctors succeeded in resuscitating her. This case is
not linked to the tragic deaths of several patients last week whom
doctors could not help, Ostojic said.
Ostojic, accompanied by local authorities, visited kidney patients
undergoing the treatment at Pula hospital today.
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