On Sunday, a young man died in Zaprešić near Zagreb because there was no emergency medicine team available to help him. The town, county and medical authorities have been trying to blame each other for the fact that a town with tens of thousands of inhabitants has just one physician on standby. The health minister is reportedly not thinking about resigning. Index.hr’s Matija Babić comments.

Due to a small number of emergency medicine teams, a young man died in Zaprešić.

Not even 10,000 kuna a month is enough for a pharmacist to come to work on one of the most beautiful Croatian islands.

You better not be in a rush if you need an exam at a hospital in Croatia.

ZAGREB, July 21, 2018 - The Croatian government has dismissed as incorrect and malicious insinuations recently made in the public which create a false impression that the state does not have money for medicines for children, but it does have money for a national stadium, the government said in a press release on Saturday, adding that those claims were not based on facts and recalling that this year the state would allocate approximately 1.3 billion kuna for particularly expensive medications, an increase of 85% from 2015.

ZAGREB, July 7, 2018 - Currently 286,000 persons in Croatia have been diagnosed with diabetes, and an estimated 450,000 may be at risk of this disease, doctor Dario Rahelić, the secretary of the International Diabetes Federation, has said in an interview with Hina.

Patients will have to come to a hospital every day for three weeks.

The number of confirmed cases has increased to 13.

ZAGREB, May 31, 2018 - A delegation of the World Bank, led by Fadia Saadah, Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, held talks with the director of the Croatian Emergency Medicine Institute Maja Grba Bujević in Karlovac on Thursday about the effects of the World Bank loan and the future support to the development of the emergency medicine service.

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - Health Minister Milan Kujundžić said on Wednesday that the situation with measles in Croatia was not serious in epidemiological terms and that he did not expect that an isolated case in Dubrovnik might harm the tourist season.