Hospitals on the territory of Vardar Macedonia as part of Serbia during the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia (1918–1941)

The period after the First world war (FWW) is considered as one of the most intensive periods of hospital openings in the Vardar Region of Macedonia as part of Serbia. Vardar Macedonia (today's Republic of Macedonia) was part of the Kingdom of Serbia in the period 1912–1915, the province of Serbia within the Yugoslav Kingdom until 1929, and Vardar Banovina within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941. Because the situation was unsatisfactory as a result of the lack of hospitals, minimalistic capacities and the low hospital equipment the hospital’s opening started with the new country formation and the foundation of the Ministry of National Health. If we follow some chronological order we should mention first the hospitals in the cities that existed before the war but because the Vardar Region of Macedonia was practically ruined there was no evidence of them. That is why we use the term new hospitals not the old ones. When we say new hospitals, in the period after the war we do not think of building new hospitals but forming hospitals in places where they did not exist before. According to the data given in the telegram sent by the Head of the Sanitary to the Management of all hospitals in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SCS), of 14 May 1919, by which it was called on purchasing products and equipment for the hospitals, in the Vardar Region in 1919, four public hospitals only existed in Skopje, Štip, Bitola and Tetovo .