ZAGREB, March 3, 2020 - The threat that the coronavirus outbreak brings is a good example of how innovations in health, in this case finding a new vaccine, can contribute to the efficiency of the health system, it was said on Tuesday at a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia (AmCham).
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Assistant Health Minister Vera Katalinić-Janković underlined that viruses were still two steps ahead of us however the objective would be to obtain an efficient vaccine against coronavirus and that, on the most part depends on the pharmaceutical industry and its possibilities for innovations.
"Apart from what innovations in the pharmaceutical industry bring to patients and the health system today, and the possibilities of cooperation between the health system and IT industry in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics in the health system, we will also talk about how to contribute to treating new threats like coronavirus," AmCham executive director Andrea Doko Jelušić said.
Today's conference was organised on the occasion of Croatia's presidency of the Council of the EU in an effort to establish dialogue between all the relevant stakeholders on the role of an innovative health industry as a generator of Europe's economic growth, future health innovations in the EU and the importance of Europe's innovative capacities.
The Foreign and European Affairs Ministry's State-Secretary, Nikolina Brnjac, underlined that during Croatia's presidency there would be talks on a series of important topics such as organ donors and transplants, lifelong health care and an analysis of the effect of new medicines and health technology.
Chairwoman of the parliamentary health and social policy committee, Ines Strenja, said that Croatia had the second highest rate of patients suffering from cancer in Europe and assessed that in addition to innovative medicines the country needed an innovative approach because of poor performance in prevention and late diagnoses of malignant diseases, while at the same time the country was investing huge amounts of money in particularly expensive medicines.
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