NOVA BILA HOSPITAL IS LOOKING FORWARD TO RELIEF AID

VITEZ, Dec 2 (Hina) - Dr. Drago Djumbus, health official in the Vitez area, stated today at the first anniversary of the establishment of the Franciscan hospital of Nova Bila (Central Bosnia) it was looking forward to delivery of humanitarian aid soon as well as to arrival of the doctors and medical stuff in this hospital. There are at the moment 91 wounded persons admitted to the hospital, 55 of whom are gravely wounded, while the medical stuff currently employed there, is exhausted by constant work. The seriously wounded should be immediately evacuated from Nova Bila to better equipped hospitals. The Croatian Defence Council's (HVO) commission for the exchange of the prisoners-of-war issued a statement on an incident in the camp of the Nordic UNPROFOR soldiers, situated in the Vares area (Central Bosnia). Fleeing before the Moslem-dominated B-H Army, one civilian from Vares sought shelter in the camp of the Nordic UNPROFOR battalion on the 17th of November 1993. He stayed in the camp until the 24th of November 1993, when the Moslem military police entered the camp and took him prisoner. He was first taken to a prison in the part of the Vitez area under control of the Moslems, and later to a prison in Tuzla (northeastern Bosnia). The HVO of Vitez lodged an official protest with the UNPROFOR Headquarters in Bosnia-Herzegovina because of this incident. 021656 MET dec 93