We are thankful to Department of paediatrics General Hospital
Dubrovnik and HN Anka Drobac on the material
Paediatrics department GH Dubrovnik
There is a close cooperation of our Association and Paediatrics department.
We intensivle work on collaboration of doctors and parents, aiming
on promoting the children rights to adequate medical care, informing
and educating children and parents about diseases and the way of
treatment, as well as observing chronical diseases, organizing
humanitarian events and providing help for the most sick children.
Continuous activities of the departments personnel, organized lectures
and gathering founds in action "For the child smile in hospital", have
greatly contributed to the opening of the department to publicity ,
comunications, donations in providing food, dipers, cosmetics, and
even expencive medical devices and progress in every aspect.

Part of the team of the paediatric department from
the General Hospital Dubrovnik, headed by dr Marija Radonić
and the guest who has visited the department to help
with the introduction of Quality Managing System Prof. Dr. Sc. Ana
Stavljenić Rukavina.
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Children's department - statistics/ 2005
- 1490 hospitalized children
- 4,9 days average hospital detention
- 20000 ambulatory intervention in :
general and urgent ambulance, "daily hospital", allergic-pulmonological,
cardiac, endocrinological, neonatological, neuropaediatric, nephrological
ambulance
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The Department is fully open towards the public, which required a lot
of effort, a lot of learning, and much time for everyone to adapt.
With the project „Artist donation“the department was arranged with
their work where all the decorations were gift and result of the
artist painters' plan.
Members of Sy Down Association in accordance with their working therapy,
maintain department's garden.
The contract was signed with elementary school "Ivan Gundulić",
about class maintenaning for children who have to be longer in hospital..
High school students visit children during holidays and they cheer
them up with appropriate program.
Once a week a dentist visits the Department to educate them about
oral cavity hygiene.
Once a week a storyteller visits
the Department. Once a week volunteers from
society "Our children " entertain kids.

Every year at the Day of diseased the Mayor,
County Executive and Father Bishop visit
our department and in that way drow attention
to the youngest patients whoo needs as much help as we can give them
to fight with the disease. It became a custom that all prominent
city visitors come to visit the Department with the same aim.
House rules of Paediatric department |
Doctors gives informations to the parents about their children, between
15:00-16:00 hours in doctors office or by telephone:
- administration, head nurse:
- surgery:
- doctors office:
- head office dr.Marija Radonić:
- Please turn off your mobile phone while entering the hospital.
- No smoking allowed.
- While visiting children, please contact a nurse which takes
care off your child.
- As the children in hospital mostly miss their parents, it would
be the best for them their parents or trustee visit them, brother
or sister (at the most two persons at the time)
).
- You can bring yor children pyjamas, slippers, hygienic accessories
(comb, tooth brush and tooth paste) and clothes to ware at
a daytime.
- Depends of child age you can bring them favorite toy, book or game.
- When you enter the patients room wash your hands, try to bring as less things as you can and do not put it down on the patients bad.
- It is possible for one parent to be with child for 24 hours.
- We kindly ask acutely ill persons with respiratory, gastrointestinal problems and rashes not to visit children.
- Please, do not bring food and drinks until you consult the doctor or nurse taking care of your child. The food you bring on doctors recommendation, allways must be fresh.
- Visiting time devote to your child playing with them, reading stories and talking to them. Encourage them and comfort, be gently because in sickness they need it more than ever.
- If you want to telephone your kid, you can call to phone box in the lobby on - 411 252.
Along with the desire for faster recovery of your child we thank
you for your trust and cooperation.
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