During April, the leadership of the Community took various actions to prevent the relocation of the Clinic for Psychological Medicine of the University Hospital Center Zagreb.. After the meeting with the management of KBC Zagreb, a press conference was organized with the aim of acquainting the public with the issue of relocating the Clinic.. The Clinic for Psychological Medicine of the University Hospital Center Zagreb has been in the past 20 years has provided and still provides psychiatric and psychological assistance for more than 10 000 Croatian veterans and members of their families, including a large number of our members. Representatives of our community in the past week attended meetings from which it was obvious that the management of KBC Zagreb wants to move the clinic to completely inappropriate premises (Hotel Rebro!) which was opposed by all relevant experts of KBC Zagreb, as well as the vast majority of the staff of the Psychiatric Clinic. Also, Community representatives from the position of health service users informed the Minister of Health and the Minister of Croatian Veterans that we oppose the idea of such relocation. Today we want to emphasize that we believe that all patients whose medical care is endangered (in this case the Clinic for Lung Diseases Jordanovac) they must receive adequate health care, but not to the detriment and harm of particularly vulnerable social groups such as veterans, children and youth. World Health Organization (WEAVE) and international associations dealing with the protection of people with mental health problems say that for the general population the negative effects of COVIDA-19 are equally destructive in terms of mental health., as well as for physical health. Given the fact that one in five of our fellow citizens is currently at risk of developing more severe mental conditions caused by the corona crisis, and for those who are already suffering, those conditions are getting worse, the aspiration of the Management of KBC Zagreb to become a Clinic for Psychological Medicine is completely incomprehensible “relocate” to another location. We say this in the desire to protect our fellow citizens because we do not want them to feel what we went through on our skin when we were “second-order patients”, and when they assured us that “PTSD does not exist” i “that it will all pass”. “Not all wounds are visible” is the slogan of our Community and we hereby APPEAL AGAIN to the line ministers that under the pretext of caring for a group of patients no harm is done to the victims of psychological trauma, how to us, so do the thousands of our fellow citizens who these days call the phones for psychological help and despair in the loneliness of their four walls.
You can watch the report here, reportage time from 12:50 – 15:16 minute
