SKOČIBUSIĆ: GOOD PREVENTION RESULTS IN HIGH LEVEL PUBLIC HEALTH

SARAJEVO, JANUARY 17 (ONASA) – Representatives of the Institute for Public Health of the Federation of BiH emphasized on Tuesday at the reception the importance of cooperation between that institute and representatives of the media and advocacy for the protection of citizens’ health, stressing that the messages they send have an impact on their attitudes and behavior. healthier and better quality of life.
Director of the Institute Siniša Skočibušić emphasizes prevention as one of the main activities, adding that without it there is no public health at a high level.
“Fortunately, we have awareness and good knowledge of prevention. We also have challenges that more and more people are sick from various diseases of modern life, which is why we have to work more on prevention. With our capacities, which should be even significantly better, last year we launched two preventive programs,” said Skočibušić.
Those programs refer to eye examinations as well as oral health protection measures for children, which will be continued in this calendar year.
Skočibučić highlighted immunization as a civilizational reach, especially noticeable during the pandemic period. As he emphasized, fortunately we have a good immunization calendar, which they want to expand and cover even more of the population, all with the aim of better health protection. The novelty, he said, is definitely immunization against the human papilloma virus (HPV). This virus is considered the key cause of cervical cancer.
Assistant Director for Medical Affairs Aida Ramić Čatak spoke about the importance of cooperation between representatives of the media and the Institute, and recalled experiences from the pandemic period.
“During COVID, we learned many lessons. One of the most important was that the 21st century is the century of knowledge, and COVID showed us that misinformation is the enemy of knowledge, of people’s health, and that we will never know how many lives we lost due to misinformation that certainly left a mark in wrong behavior and wrong decision-making. That is why it is important that we remain, for you, the most dominant and respectable source of data and information concerning the health of citizens,” said Aida Ramić Čatak to media representatives.
The Institute for Public Health of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the umbrella public health institution, marked one hundred years of institutional public health in Bosnia and Herzegovina last calendar year, and during that period they have gone through a lot. In the past period, the Institute renovated the building of the Organizational Unit in Sarajevo, and a short video/film about the stages of renovation was shown during the reception, and together with the guests, they toured the newly renovated premises.
The reception at the FBiH Public Health Institute in Sarajevo was also attended by other associates of the director, assistants, heads of services and departments of that institute.