Executive Director of the Association of Parents Kristina Mihailović informed the President Ranko Krivokapić about the situation in Montenegrin maternity wards and urgent needs for solving problems and enhancing the quality of health services and system safety.

President of the Parliament Ranko Krivokapić expressed gratitude to the Association for their social engagement and devoted dealing with the issue related to the most delicate part in the health care system – maternity wards, the place where the life starts.

Interlocutors agreed that the current situation in Montenegrin maternity wards needed caring action of competent institutions that are the part of the health care system of Montenegro, as well as the general public.

President Ranko Krivokapić stated that he would initiate a consultative hearing in the Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare, so that the Committee, in consultation with stakeholders, could draw conclusions which would be intended to create a strategy for eliminating failures and improving the quality of health care in maternity wards.   

President Krivokapić requested from the Association of Parents to submit by the end of the week the proposal for the maternity ward for which it is the most important to donate the money collected in the action "For the Children of Montenegro", with the money that the Parliament will allocate from its savings.