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Dr. Mira Jovanovski Dasic, Director of SEEHN Secretariat earlier this week had a meeting with H.E. Ms.Lepa Babic, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Republic of Macedonia.
At the beginning, Dr. Jovanovski Dasic expressed her gratitude to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the strong support to SEEHN activities over the past 15 years. She also gave an insight into the recent accomplishments. Namely, she made an introduction to the newly adopted Chisinau Pledge as a direct result of the SEEHN Fourth Ministerial Forum on “Health, well-being and prosperity in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) by 2030 in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, she presented the structure of the Network, the ongoing activities and the road map for future ones. She also gave an overview of the work of the Regional Health development Centers (RHDCs) while particularly acknowledging their resilient work on Mental Health based in Sarajevo, BiH. She emphasized the importance of the SEEHN Secretariat continuing working on strengthening health systems and the Network’s performance throughout the SEE Region.
Madam Ambassador Babic congratulated Dr. Jovanovski Dasic on assuming the office and stressed out the significance of a joint initiative tackling contemporary health issues existing in the region thus offering her assistance in terms of diplomatic correspondence in the future.
Maintaining a strong relationship with the Republic of Macedonia as the host country as well as intensification of the connections with the diplomatic representatives of the SEEHN Member States with seat in Skopje was also recognized as a top priority by Dr. Jovanovski Dasic.
Information on mutual areas of interest and opinions regarding technical possibilities for the consolidation of the Network have also been exchanged in a friendly atmosphere.
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Strengthening the partnership at local level June 21, 2017 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia – Director of the SEEHN Secretariat Dr Mira Jovanovski Dasic and International Organization for Migration (IOM) Head of Office in the Republic of Macedonia MSc.Sonja Bozinovska Petrusevska, met at the Seat of the SEEHN Secretariat, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
Future collaboration and possibilities for strengthening the partnership of the SEEHN and the IOM were discussed.
Within its Migration Health Division (MHD), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in its role of United Nations Migration Agency, delivers and promotes comprehensive, preventive and curative health programmes which are beneficial, accessible, and equitable for migrants and mobile populations. The IOM’s Head of Office, Ms Bozinovska-Petrusevska has explained the activities implemented by IOM, as a support to the country in addressing the complex migration situation, but also pointed out to the longer-term activities related to renovation of hospitals and donation of medical equipment that contributed towards enhanced conditions for health assistance to migrants and refugees, but also for the local population inhabited in the areas affected by the migration flows. Ms. Bozinovska-Petrusevska pointed out to the future cooperation perspectives between IOM Skopje and SEEHN with focus on the health aspects of the human mobility, transfer of health related expertise, strengthening of the regional referral and cooperation mechanisms, as well as enhancing the overall capacities for provision of health assistance to the vulnerable categories.
Several SEEHN countries are facing an increased influx of migrants and refugees seeking to cross the SEE countries to reach their final destination Western European countries. These large – scale arrivals of refugees and migrants represent great public health challenge. Taking adequate measures for securing their health and safety, as well as securing public health safety of the SEE countries and their citizens is of key importance.
Dr Jovanovski Dasic highlighted that in order to have national and better regional and international response there is need to strengthen the collaboration with all relevant international stakeholders, WHO, UNHCR, UNFPA, IOM and other acters who can improve the mechanisms for providing urgent assistance to the countries in need.
This week IOM and UNHCR are organizing in Skopje a Conference on the global compact of migration and global compact of migrants. IOM invited Secretariat of SEEHN to participate to this event, as a first step for further collaboration and strengthening of the partnership.
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Director of SEEHN Secretariat Dr. Mira Jovanovski Dasic met today at the Seat of the Secretariat in Skopje Prof. Dragan Gjorgjev, Director of the SEEHN Regional Health Development Center (RHDC) for strengthening public health capacities placed in the Institute for Public Health in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
Dr. Dasic made an overview of the current developments related to the SEEHN. She shared medium and long-term plans aiming to identify challenges and opportunities for strengthening technical work of the SEEHN, in the light of the implementation of the recently endorsed Chisinau Pledge. The role of the SEEHN Regional Health Development Centers is instrumental to that effect. The results will be accelerated with the greater involvement of the SEEHN partners Dr. Dasic emphasized.
The discussion highlighted the need to guide the work of Regional Health Development Centers towards implementation of the Chisinau Pledge and increasing and strengthening partnerships at the national and sub-national levels. It has been concluded that the Regional Health Development Centers should aim to fulfilling the WHO requirements to become WHO Collaborative Centers.
