THE HEALTH DIMENSION OF SEE 2020

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ministerialHealth and well-being are human rights. Health is a public good that is a determinant and contributor to peace, economic development and growth. Health is one of the 2 pillars of human capitol and as such a perquisite to growth and development.

Health is an important dimension of SEE 2020 Inclusive Growth pillar. The SEE Health Network, one of the RCC Initiatives since 2001, with its clear legally binding documents, and institutions (SEE Health Network Secretariat inaugurated on 07 March 2013 in Skopje, 10 Regional Health Development Centers in each one of the 10 Member States, and a network of over 300 experts) has developed the Health chapter for the SEE 2020 Growth Strategy.

On November 21, 2013 in Sarajevo during the Ministerial Conference of the South East Europe Investment Committee, co-chaired by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the RCC, the SEE 2020 Strategy was adopted by the ministers of economy of the Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia, in the presence of the representatives of the European Union and other regional and international partners and initiatives, international organizations, and donor community. Adoption of the SEE 2020 Strategy has made commitments for creation of one million new jobs in South East Europe (SEE) until 2020 as the most important aim of the strategy dubbed “Jobs and Prosperity in a European Perspective”.

SOUTH EAST EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY

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SEE2020-Strategy-1The goal of the South East Europe (SEE) 2020 strategy of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), is to improve living conditions in the region and bring competitiveness and development back in focus, closely following the vision of the EU strategy Europe 2020. It stresses out the shared vision of the SEE economies to open up to 1 million new jobs by 2020, by enabling employment growth from 39% to 44%, increase of total regional trade turnover by more than double from 94 to 210 billion euro, the rise of the region’s GDP per capita from current 36% to 44% of the EU average, and the addition of 300,000 highly qualified people to the workforce.

Ammunition explosion causes chain of blood donations

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Healthstory-ALB2008Albania – Blood Donation Story

On March 15, 2008, beginning as a quiet day in the village of Gerdec, just miles away from Tirana, Albania, an unfortunate chain of events led to massive explosion of an old ex-military ammunition stockpile going up at once. On the ground, there was no exact information on the number of wounded, but the country already knew that its regular supply of blood donations of 7/1000 inhabitants would not be enough to respond to this immediate need in the incurred emergency situation… (more…)