CROWN PRINCESS KATHERINE DELIVERS HUMANITARIAN AID TO ORPHANAGE IN SOMBOR, ATTENDS CELEBRATION OF 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR PULMONARY DISEASES OF VOJVODINA

Belgrade, 28 May 2010 – Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Katherine visited today the Home for children without parental care “Miroslav Mika Antic” in Sombor, where she delivered a PC computer with software, the donation of a very good friend of Their Royal Highnesses from the United States of America Dr Margulis and 500 Kg of pasta and 1000 Kg of flour, a donation from Zitopromet Company from Senta. HRH Crown Princess Katherine was welcomed by all beneficiaries of this social care institution and director, Ms. Nada Starcevic, Mr. Zoran Miler, Vice President of the City Assembly, and Assistant Mayor of Sombor Mr. Zivko Conic, with whom she spent lovely time in conversation.

Her Royal Highness then went to Novi Sad, to the event for the 50th Anniversary of Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina. The event was officially opened by Dr Bojan Pajtic, President of Vojvodina Government.

In her address, HRH Crown Princess Katherine emphasized: “Improvements and advancement in health care quality for all our citizens should be a joint goal of us all. Your Institute has contributed to this noble aim during many years, and it is still doing so”.

The Institute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina was founded in 1960, and at that time it was the biggest health care institution in that field of medicine in the Former-Yugoslavia.