Degradation of patients

The age of transition, various upheavals, dismissals, factory closings and all kinds of miracles, for many years, brought many to where everything starts - the Employment Agency. Well, from there, a good majority is neither there nor here.

So why wonder that everyone gets sick from stress. That stress became like a pendant to more or less everyone, and mostly to the most numerous - the former working class. It was those who were the strength and the pillar, the initiators of the beautiful and advanced, who lived from their work and created for themselves and their families. And now it's time for them to have only numbers everywhere you turn. The number in the Institute, the number in the PIO and, unfortunately, the number of the plot in Čepurke. Everyone copes as they know how, and people suffer because a person is never alone in a struggle, he always has company. Long years of work and creation, expectation and hope that they will be able to live decently in retirement, fell into the water, because pensions are anything but a decent and carefree life for many retirees. And when the time of illness and forced retirement comes, hell breaks out for many.

Then you should go to the banks, ask for a loan for survival and realization of all that the whirlwind of life brings and - survive. And there are classifications and numbers for a certain group of pensioners and disabled persons, i.e. checking medical records with selected doctors. Where did they get the right to insult in that way and determine the arshins to whom they will give loans? Why are oncology patients degraded starting from the communication of the disease itself, the struggle for survival and staying on earth. Those same banks operate and survive precisely because of us clients, many of whom received ld through their accounts.

Is the health card a guarantor for the loan amount? Didn't retired clients create something during their lifetime and active work, or do they have to sell property and survive?... Who guarantees everyone else that they will survive tomorrow, what is the doctor's stamp that can confirm and give a guarantee? Let all bankers reconsider and talk to themselves, put the numbers aside and be realistic because you never know who ECI, PECI, PEC will like.....

Let them do their best to be a wind behind them and a support for all those who come to their door, because if it weren't for the clients, they wouldn't exist either. And the disease does not choose, it comes and goes by itself.

Suzana JOVICEVIĆ, patient no. ****