БЕЗБЕДНОСТ ЗДРАВЉА У СРБИЈИ: Црвени крст и епидемиолошки проблеми (студија случаја)

Abstract

A unique scientific monograph authored by Dr. Adriana Grmuša, deals with issues of the activities of the Serbian Red Cross as well as its participation in dealing with epidemiological problems.

Not lagging behind the Europe of that time, the first national Red Cross Society in Serbia, called the Serbian Society of the Red Cross, was founded on February 6, 1876 in Belgrade, in accordance with the ideas of Andrij Dinan and the provisions of the Geneva Convention from 1864.

The activities of the Serbian Red Cross were primarily related to the support of the Serbian army in six wars: two Serbian-Turkish wars (1876-1878), the Serbian-Bulgarian war (1885), the Balkan wars (1912-1913) and the First World War (1914-1918). 

The importance of the work of the Serbian Red Cross Society is illustrated by the report from the last meeting of the Main Board on December 25, 1921:

“History knows nothing similar to what happened to the Serbian Red Cross in 1915-1918.” He was not only a slave, but also an exile. Both as a slave and as an exile, the Serbian Red Cross did not lose its presence of mind, but worked for the benefit and for the good of the Serbian army and the Serbian people, it was and always remained consistent with philanthropy and all the regulations of the Geneva Convention”.

The Second World War and the years after the war represented the most challenging period for the Society in the wake of refugees, lack of drinking water and basic hygiene conditions. Stormy periods of our history were marked by epidemics of many diseases, such as typhus, cholera and tuberculosis, to which the author of this monograph paid special attention. After the Cold War, the world faced new challenges, primarily non-military threats.

The new wave of globalization has brought the danger of the spread of other infectious diseases, so the activities of the Red Cross of Serbia are directed accordingly.