Health care

Health protection of the City and the Municipality population is spatially and organizationally based on possibilities and capacities of the Health Center ’Sveti Luka’, whose structures with the total surface of 17,503 m² are located in the wider City center on the area of around 2.23 ha. The health center consists of four organizational units, such as follows:

1. General hospital
2. Health center
3. Emergency reception block
4. Common departments

a) Primary health protection

Smederevo possesses one Health Center as a priority institution of primary medical protection. There are total of 491 employees, out of which there are 141 physicians, 249 nurses, laboratory technicians and other technicians and 79 other personnel. The Health center is organized in 14 departments.
The Health Center has smaller organization units at different City and Municipality locations which thus form a network of primary medical protection of all population categories.

b) Specialized health protection

Smederevo has one general hospital, as a main institution of primary medical protection. General hospital is located within the wider City center in the structure with a groundfloor and two floors, with around 12,862 m² of building surface. General hospital covers the area of the Municipality of Smederevo which has 109,809 inhabitants (according to the last census from 2002). That means that there is 0.36 hospital bed per 100 inhabitants.

Table . Health care capacities, 2007

	Number of beds	Share in total beds (%)	Number of beds per 100 inhabitants
Acute	178	44,61	0,16
Chronic	191	47,87	0,17
Psychiatric	25	6,27	0,02
Social	5	1,25	0,01
TOTAL	399	100	0,36