'TRAUMA CENTRE' OPENED AT ZAGREB CLINIC FOR CHILDREN'S DISEASES

ZAGREB, 18 Jan (Hina) - The newly-adapted centre for the protection of children's and adolescents' mental health, 'Trauma Centre', was opened on Saturday at the Zagreb Medical Faculty Clinic for Children Diseases. 'Trauma Centre' will provide medical help for children who suffer from war and post-trauma stresses, which often result in anxiety, separation, depression caused by loss, delinquency, addiction etc. 'Trauma Centre' was adapted thanks to numerous donors, individuals and institutions from Great Britain gathered in the humanitarian organisation 'Children's Rehabilitation Centre'. The adaptation of 'Trauma Centre' cost 640,000 kuna. #L# According to the head of the clinic, Dr Ivan Fattorini, the opening of 'Trauma Centre' represented the completion of a clinic's section damaged in the Serb shelling of Zagreb on 3 May, 1995. Many British citizens had helped Croatia, especially Croatian children, said British Ambassador to Croatia, Gavin Hewitt. One of the initiators of the 'Trauma Centre' project and founder of the British-Croatian Society in London, Roland Jovanovic-Barolda, said that he and the commissioner of the 'Children's Rehabilitation Unit', Edward Cowen, had started the founding of a group for help to children, which helped raise the money for the equipment of 'Trauma Centre'. At the end of the opening ceremony, diplomas were presented to Mr Cowen, Mr Jovanovic-Barolda and two donor families. (hina) rm 181534 MET jan 97