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Montenegro healthcare infrastructure and cooperation

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Montenegro has undertaken several initiatives to improve its medical infrastructure and diagnostic capabilities. In late August 2026, Pljevlja General Hospital acquired new ultrasound technology valued at 54,692 euros to expand its range of examinations, including abdominal, pelvic, and vascular assessments. examinations. In early September 2026, Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ervin Ibrahimović met with Turkish health officials to expand discuss expanding bilateral cooperation. Discussions focused on intensifying activities under an updated agreement to improve treatment options in Turkish state health institutions, exploring specialized training programs, and establishing cooperation, including the potential establishment of a diagnostic center in Podgorica supported by USHAŞ to focus on early disease detection and digitalization. USHAŞ. Furthering these diagnostic upgrades, Montenegrin Health Minister Vojislav Šimun met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in mid-September 2026 to confirm two major projects. The first involves projects: a PET/CT diagnostics project valued at nearly 1.9 million euros, which includes the construction of euros and a new facility expected to be completed within 18 months. The second project, valued at 1.6 million euros, aims at the euro project for early detection of breast cancer through the provision of detection via four advanced digital mammography machines. On September 17, 2026, Minister Anđela Jakšić Stojanović confirmed that the PET/CT scanner procurement, facilitated by the IAEA through cooperation between the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation and the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), will procurement would include specialized training for doctors, medical physicists, and technicians. staff. Concurrently, the KCCG Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) announced that a temporary 20-day service suspension for its gamma camera department will be temporarily out of service for approximately 20 days to facilitate its relocation to a reconstructed facility in Petrović Park. During the 70th IAEA General Conference in Vienna on facility. On September 19, 28, 2026, Minister Jakšić-Stojanović highlighted that these procurement efforts for the PET/CT scanner and KCCG acquired a modern mobile digital mammography chair through cooperation with the IAEA. This equipment aim is intended to improve healthcare quality. enhance diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine by allowing for more precise positioning during mammography, stereotaxy, and complex biopsy procedures. This upgrade is expected to enable complex biopsies, which were previously performed abroad, to be conducted locally.

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