MEDICAL AID FROM US ARRIVED TO ZAGREB

ZAGREB, Nov 22 (Hina) - The American aircraft carrying 60 tons of medicines and medical equipment arrived on Monday at the Zagreb airport. The amount of this delivery is US$ 1,7 million and it is a donation to hospitals in Croatia and Bosnia. This shipment was send by the American organization USAID within the frame of the Project Hope. The aircraft was met by Croatian Health Minister dr. Andrija Hebrang and American Ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith. Minister Hebrang emphasized that hospitals in Croatia lacked cytostatics and chemoterapeutics which were included in this shipment. Ambassador Galbraith said that this humanitarian aid delivery was only a minimum of the efforts which the international community would have to make this year in order to make easier the suffering of people in Croatia and B-H. 221338 MET nov 93