THE DESPERATE HOST

Brief medical history

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Miodrag Radunović, Photo: Zoran Đurić
Miodrag Radunović, Photo: Zoran Đurić
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Ažurirano: 22.02.2015. 08:00h

When he was on workshop sewing from laparoscopy, doctor Radunović saw that the situation in Novi Sad is much better than in Bijelo Polje. However, Bobo accepted the reality, so to speak, without any problems, continued to improve and build a career, so there followed workshops in herniology in Niš, learning the tension-free technique in Zrenjanin, and by God, when the party made a little progress, the VI World Hepato Congress took place. - biliary surgery in Washington DC.

Radunović was already 45 years old at the time, twenty-odd years have passed since he donned the white coat, way back in 1982 in his native Berane, which we will cover with snow for the occasion, in order to place the beginning of the minister's career in the most poetic context possible. Because until the death of a baby in Bijelo Polje, everything in Bob Radunović's career was pure poetry. Apart from the poisoning of several thousand people in Berane, which we have forgotten, almost nothing heavier than a snowflake fell on the lapel of this born gentleman.

Since childhood, Bob was followed by a lucky star, and he was especially proud that his primary school was called "Vukašin Radunović". Tell me, can the last name of a school be a bad student? Jok, the sea! Little Bobo wanted to somehow repay the happy life he had been given, he wanted to conquer the heights of knowledge and like all happy people - he went to study in Nis.

Successes followed, surgeon Radunović deservedly became the director of the General Hospital in Berane in 1998 - was it by chance? - the very historic year when the great DPS broke out. For the first and last time that year, violence in the party saved the government from violence on the street. Anyone who has made progress knows that feeling, but when you make progress in days important for the party and the fatherland, then you fly very high.

And Bobo flew, he flew to the mayor's office, ten years later, he flew to a member of the DPS presidency, he flew in a limousine before every election to his native Berane to coordinate the voter flock, so he probably also stopped by the old office, whispered in the hospital corridors that he breathed bouquet, so dear to him because it reminds him of his youth. It's true that every hospital in the north is falling apart, but Bobo started his career there and we don't blame him for standing above his former desk and smiling - the prime minister is coming to the opening of the hospital annex, the year is 2010, the new infectious department is lit up and festive, so let's leave it let the minister smile before the last elections in his hometown, which he will win.

Let's leave Radunović in the office of the hospital where cockroaches and activists roam, let's go back to the present when the sheets are tight, the neonatology department in Bijelo Polje is so bright that you lick the floor. His Excellency acting Minister of Health Suad Numanović walks down the hall, you can see an honest man, who would never employ his brother, two daughters-in-law, two sons-in-law and two cousins ​​in the Home for the Elderly in the quiet Medanovići neighborhood, not far from the hospital he is visiting.

Everywhere around the minister, you will be picking and polishing pathos, an incubator turned on feng shui; the corridor smells of the floral perfume of neonatologist Haka Tahirović, who shows the way, somewhat out of habit, as if the high-ranking guest does not know where he has come. And the minister of corridors and election victories remembers well, he was a doctor in that hospital in 1999, looking at the sky during long nights on duty, a sky where we will imagine stars instead of NATO satellites, to put those days in a more romantic context.

Even as the president of the municipal DPS, as an internist and humanist, Numanović appreciated the work of his party comrade, Dr. Tomislav Jeremic, former director of the Bjelopolje hospital, which simply - must continue. Four babies were infected, one died, and for Numanović this is a "sporadic case". The government invested 15.000 euros, the doctors were returned from Kinshasa and now the retired neonatologist Ećo Šećo can go back to retirement - the Jeremić-Tahirović tandem boldly performs with the blessing of the minister.

Numanović fell in love with the role of Mr. Proper, from which he pours the myrrh of asepsol and legal achievements - he ordered that the presumption of innocence be respected, and one already feels as if he is spoiling the party if he mentions that during the mandate of those people, every third smear was positive for bacteria, among others and on bacillus sp. which was found in the spleen of a dead baby.

The visit didn't even end, and we all heard that Radunović will be an adviser to the prime minister, not for local anesthesia but for local administration. It is an apology to the families of the health care victims, but also a reward to Radunović for keeping quiet about the report from 2008, which demanded the immediate replacement of Jeremic's team.

Radunović's responsibility is not the only one, but the moment when Doctor Bobo's desire to manage was born - perhaps in 1998 in Zlatibor, when there was a congress of surgeons, and our Bobo, like some Kundera hero, leaned his elbow on the window of Hotel X and lit up the night with his ambition - from that moment the future minister took responsibility to ensure that babies do not die because of dirty hands and floors.

Let him pay for his political ambition fairly, no one forced him to stop taking courses, he could have been a doctor, but he saw the state of health care, so he probably thought - it's better to lead it than to work in it. That is why Bobo Radunović is guilty and should leave politics, which he announced with his resignation. That's why it will be disgusting if he becomes an adviser to the prime minister. That party trickery would be particularly nasty, and I still hope that he will refuse the honor in order to strengthen the belief that at least the death of a child is binding. He could teach his students about this at the prestigious Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica.

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