WHILE DIPLOMATS ponder, physicians cope with mounting medical problems in communities throughout what once was Yugoslavia.
The city and municipal region of Brcko (pronounced birch-ko) in Bosnia-Herzegovina is typical. The Brcko municipal region is a bottleneck at the northeast point of Serb-held territory (Republika Srpska); it is almost due west of Belgrade and almost due north of Sarajevo, in the country carved by revolution from the former Yugoslavia.
While Bosnian Muslims and Serbs contend for Brcko and Croats watch warily from within Bosnia-Herzegovina and neighboring Coatia (also carved from former Yugoslavia) to the north, Brcko's physicians struggle to rebuild a medical system. They have the help of various nongovernmental voluntary health agencies and of the US military medical people supporting peacekeepers in this area of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Meanwhile, in the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina proper, health ministry officials say deterioration of the living conditions is contributing to the increased . . . [Full Text of this Article]
