PRINCESS KATHERINE AND VESNA MANDIC BRING HUMANITARIAN AID TO ZEMUN HOSPITAL

Belgrade, 24 February 2011 – HRH Crown Princess Katherine, together with Ms. Vesna Mandic, delivered today valuable humanitarian aid to Zemun Hospital.

This important donation is provided thanks to the funds raised during last year’s humanitarian fashion show traditionally held for St. Valentine’s Day at the White Palace.

As a part of this action reconstruction of the mammography unit in Zemun hospital was finished and negatoscope (a machine for reading mammography records), computer and printer were purchased for this department.

During the humanitarian fashion show, held 14 February 2010 at the White Palace, the famous Italian designer Renato Balestra, and Serbian designers Predrag Vukasinovic and Dragana Ognjenovic presented their works and helped to raise funds for this humanitarian goal supporting the Breast Cancer Campaign.

Doc. Dr Dragos Stojanovic, director of Zemun hospital, HRH Crown Princess Katherine, and Ms. Vesna Mandic addressed medical staff and guests during ceremony.

HRH Crown Princess Katherine has emphasized in her speech: “This valuable donation is result of our cooperation, and it will provide better quality of services to patients of this hospital. As a woman, I feel obliged to help in fighting breast cancer, which can be treated and shouldn’t end up by death. It is crucial that we continue our joint efforts in fighting this terrible disease and give women in Serbia better chance in doing so. I repeat that breast cancer is curable and death is not an option!”