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Serbia Center party presidency member Dragan Delic said on March 5 that spending on healthcare in Serbia was three times lower than the EU average.
"The low public spending on healthcare in Serbia is not enough to ensure modern, quality and efficient healthcare. Supplementary health insurance, redirecting budget revenues such as excise and taxes on games of chance, stricter financial discipline and observing the Law on Contributions could be an acceptable way to raise the inflow of financial resources into the Republic Health Insurance Fund, Delic said presenting the supplementary edition of the Heart Book.
Delic stressed that primary healthcare needed to be strengthened in terms of staff, money and organization, i.e. health centers, to ensure that they were capable of solving over 80 percent of citizens' health problems.
He said that healthcare was not a form of consumption, but the best investment and that the health of the population was a strategic national resource for any responsible and well-ordered state. He added that the objective needed to be making quality, efficient and maximally safe healthcare accessible to all Serbian citizens
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