While Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar addressed the citizens in Novi Pazar, a group of doctors and nurses turned their backs in protest, reports Nova.rs.
The Prime Minister of Serbia and Lončar in this city were greeted with their backs turned by the shouts of dissatisfied citizens who asked them why they did not bring any equipment, shouting that thousands of people are infected, while many are dying.
They visited the General Hospital in this city, and their address was constantly accompanied by disgruntled shouts from the crowd.
Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar said in Novi Pazar that the health situation in this city is under absolute control.
He said that there is enough of everything in the General Hospital in Novi Pazar, medicines, materials, protective equipment. Loncar also said that additional quantities were brought in today.
"The hospital in Novi Pazar with these additional volumes is better equipped than any other hospital in Serbia," said Lončar.
Lončar is in Novi Pazar with the Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić.
All the time during his speech, the crowd whistled and shouted "resignation", "thieves".
"There is no health system in the world that can withstand citizens acting as if there is no coronavirus," said Lončar, stating that this is a message to those who are "fighting".
Brnabić to the gathered citizens: I'm glad you're wearing masks
The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, faced with the indignation and whistles of the gathered citizens at the very beginning of her speech, said that she was glad that the citizens who came to express their protest were wearing protective masks.
She thanked all the health workers in Novi Pazar and those who came from Kragujevac, Kraljevo and Belgrade.
The Prime Minister denied the information that there are no medicines, equipment and that the ventilators brought to Novi Pazar by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, are not working.
She said that politics should be put aside.
The Prime Minister said that the Government of Serbia has not yet received a request from any country that wants to send its doctors to Novi Pazar, and that everyone who wants to help will be welcome.
"We were not afraid that twenty people came here to whistle and we will not be afraid because we are doing our job," said Brnabić.
Lončar: Less than 10 deaths that we can say had corona
Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar said that eight or nine people known to have had the coronavirus died.
"A very small number here had confirmed corona, a large number of people reported to the hospital late, they only came to the hospital when they were fighting for their lives, some had a swab taken, it will arrive, but we have a small number of people who met the conditions to be able to let's say they were positive for corona," said Lončar, answering the question of how many people died from COVID 19 in Novi Pazar.
Three patients are on ventilators at the General Hospital in Novi Pazar, Lončar said.
To his words that all respirators are working correctly, the crowd reacted violently with whistling and protesting.
And the Prime Minister said that the ventilators are working and that they are connected, responding to the shouts of individuals from the crowd that the ventilators are not working.
Answering questions that the number of funerals in recent days does not agree with the official number of deaths from COVD 19, Lončar said "you cannot accuse us because someone died at home".
Asked about the three members of the family from Tutin who died, Lončar said that they were lying at home and that they came to the hospital only when the condition was alarming.
"But then you can't judge, there is a procedure, an autopsy, to know the exact cause of death," said Lončar.
He stated that the problem in Novi Pazar arose because a large number of patients came in a short period of time.
The Prime Minister repeated several times, referring to the shouts of the crowd, that it was about politicization.
"Let's put politics aside, who brought various actors here to report from here every day and to inflame the situation," said Brnabić.
She said that she would not be afraid.
Over the weekend, the number of new cases in Novi Pazar increased by 68, so now the total number of people infected with the corona virus is 466.
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