In the past 18 months, Zadar General Hospital has faced incomprehensible administrative or logistical obstacles: in as many as 99 percent of situations, their requests for an emergency helicopter to transport life-threatening patients to larger clinical centers, primarily KBC Split, were rejected.
This is not about easy cases, but about patients in critical condition whose lives hang in the balance – those with acute strokes and heart attacks, aortic dissection or severe multiple injuries (polytraumas). For them, every second is crucial, and fast transport literally means the difference between life and death, that is, between permanent disability and a successful recovery. Below is a comment Saše Ljubičić:
– Scandalous news is coming to us from Zadar. From the city of Zadar, from the Zadar islands and the Zadar hinterland! It is impossible to receive adequate help when it comes to stroke or aortic dissection. Requests for the use of a helicopter that would transport the victims to the hospital in Split and thus save their lives or save them from severe disability are almost regularly rejected.
Reason? There are no helicopters, there is no crew, the helicopters are broken. In our country, the supposed lack of money, even when human lives are at stake, when severe disabilities are on the horizon, is some kind of justification, but in fact it is about abolishing unnecessary counties, municipalities, agencies that are actually parallel ministries, chasing away all those tens of thousands of crooks, secretaries of secretaries, and then we will have money for everything.
We will not have 5, 10, 15 helicopters available for such cases, but the entire squadron. So, we have to make the state efficient, less expensive and we have to finally embark on major reforms in order to save money for what we really need, which is saving human lives.
