PULMONARY DISEASES CLINIC
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About
The construction of the Tuberculosis Hospital in Knez Selo started in 1939. In 1947, the hospital was transformed into the Tuberculosis Sanatorim (with 200 beds) and in 1956 it became the Special TB Hospital (with 350 beds). This hospital was transformed into the Pulmonary Diseases Institute which became the Pulmonary Diseases and TB Clinic in 1982.
This clinic is a reference center for treating pulmonary diseases and TB in this part of Serbia. Pulmonary Diseases Clinic is also a teaching center for the students of medicine, doctors at a specialist program and medical doctors studying their master course. In addition, several scientific projects have been conducted there.
Pulmonary Diseases and TB Clinic is a highly specialized health institution which offers diagnostic and therapeutic services in treating disorders of the respiratory system, such as non-specific pulmonary diseases, associated extrapulmonary diseases, immunological disorders, granulomatoses, obstructive pulmonary diseases and bronchial asthma, malignant pulmonary diseases, TB etc. There is a microbiological laboratory within the clinic which is a reference laboratory in TB diagnosis. The section of the day hospital deals with treating chronic pulmonary diseases, less severe forms of pneumonia and application of cytostatic chemotherapy for patients with malignant pulmonary diseases. The clinic has a special ward equipped for the treatment of patients suffering from multidrug-resistant TB, which is one of three institutions in Serbia having this kind of treatment. This clinic is a leading institution in the field of oncological pulmonology in South-eastern Serbia, where the medicines of the latest generation are administered, patients are being prepared for a thoracic surgery and a highly specialized Concilium for the treatment of malignant pulmonary diseases meets.
Organization
Department of Non-Specific and Immunological Lung Disease
Department of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Bronchial Asthma
• Day-Care Section for Obstructive Diseases
Department of Tuberculosis
Department of Malignant Pulmonary Diseases
• Daily Hospital Section for Chemotherapy
Department of Intensive Care
Department for Admission of Patients, Spec-Consultative Activity and Diagnostics
• Section of Functional Diagnostics
• Bronchology Section
• Microbiology Section
Personnel
- Director
Tatjana Pejčić, MD, PhD
- Assistant Director
Ivana Stanković, MD, PhD
- Chiefs of Departments
Lidija Ristić, MD, PhD
Prof. dr med. sci. Milan Rančić
Prim. Dr med. Ivanka Đorđević
Prim. Dr med. sci. Slavica Golubović
- Heads of Sections
Dr Snežana Rančić
Dr Snežana Janković
Doc. dr Zorica Ćirić
- Chiefs of Departments-Cabinets
Dr Biljana Vrbić
Dr Dušica Vasić
- Heads of Sections-Cabinets
Dr Dragana Dačić
Dr Gordana Dugalić
- Head Nurse
Suzana Živković