DISPLACED DOCTORS RETURNING TO VUKOVAR

VUKOVAR, Sept 15 (Hina) - Thirty (30) doctors will return to work in Vukovar hospital next week. Within next month another 15 Vukovar doctors, exiled during the Serb occupation, will come back and 15 of them will return to work in the health clinic in Beli Manastir, Croatian Health Minister Andrija Hebrang has said. He held a news conference in the Vukovar hospital on Monday after he had visited the hospital and the health clinic in Beli Manastir. He told the conference that the ministry would build a block of 200 flats in Vukovar within the next six months so that health workers in exile could come back to this eastern Croatian town as soon as possible. Out of 475 current workers in the Vukovar hospital, 257 have fulfilled conditions to stay and work there. In Beli Manastir, 99 of the current employees have fulfilled conditions for the work in the health clinic and all of them will be offered to sign employment contracts. Others can have from six to twelve months for the confirmation of their diplomas in Croatia and to decide whether they will come back to health centres and hospitals in other Croatian areas from which they arrived in eastern Slavonia and Baranja or will remain in current places of residence. If reached agreements were respected in future as they had been so far, the health system of the Croatian Danube river area would be completely reintegrated not later than 1 November, Hebrang said. (hina) jn mš 151851 MET sep 97