The University of Zagreb Medical School and the war in Croatia 1991-1992
Kostović, I.
Lijecnicki Vjesnik 114(5-8): 79-83
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0024-3477 PMID: 1343057 Document Number: 404198
School of Medicine, University of Zagreb (as an institution as well as through the efforts of individual faculty and staff members) has actively participated in all the phases of the war against Croatia: the preparatory phase (1990 and the first half of 1991), the phase of local war (July and August 1991) and the phase of total war (September 1991 to January 1992). In defense preparations, leading faculty members, supervised by the Croatian Government, have: 1. prepared the University hospitals for the case of mass casualties, 2. initiated donation of essential medical supplies and equipment, and 3. prepared the preclinical staff and facilities for research, documentation and information services for Crisis management. On July 11, 1992, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia formed the Medical Headquarters to coordinate the health services in the defense of Croatia. Several faculty members were appointed heads of the following Headquarters divisions: Division of Informatics and Research, Division of Education and Publicity, Division of Toxicology, The Fourth Echelon, Division of Mental Health and Division of Rehabilitation. Assistant lecturers, technicians and students actively joined work in the Division of Donations, which acquired and provided almost all medical supplies used in our battlefields and hospitals.