Open AccessChronicle of the "Anglo-Yugoslav Children’s Hospital" in Sremska Kamenica
Author(s) -
Dušanka Dobanovački,
Z Mikić,
Nada Vučković
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns1508277d
Subject(s) - medicine , peacetime , serbian , treasure , bachelor , world war ii , work (physics) , spanish civil war , general surgery , family medicine , law , history , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , political science , engineering
As a peacetime work of Katherine S. Macphail (Glasgow, 1887- St. Andrews, 1974) MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), the Anglo-Serbian Children?s Hospital in Belgrade was established after World War I, and the English-Yugoslav Children?s Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis was founded in Sremska Kamenica in 1934. Situated on the Fruska Gora slope, the hospital-sanatorium was a well-equipped medical institution with an operating theatre and x-ray machine providing very advanced therapy, comparable to those in Switzerland and England: aero and heliotherapy, good quality nourishment, etc. In addition, school lessons were organized as well as several types of handwork as the work-therapy. It was a privately owned hospital but almost all the children were treated free of cost. The age for admission was up to 14. During the period from 1934 to 1937, around 458 children underwent hospital treatment, most of them with successful results. During the war years the Sanatorium was closed but after the war it was reactivated. In 1948 by the act of final nationalization of all medical institutions in the communist Yugoslavia, the hospital was transformed into a ward of orthopedic surgery under the supervision of the referent departments in Belgrade and Novi Sad. Today, hospital is out of work and deprived of its humanitarian mission. The building is neglected and in ruins although it has been proclaimed the national treasure by the Regional Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture.