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| Dr. Vesna Bosanac 1949-2022 Croatian hero of the city of Vukovar |
| By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić |
Published
03/23/2023
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Croatian spirituality , Human Rights , Education
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Director of the Vukovar Hospital since July 1991
Dr. Vesna Bosanac with her colleagues (on the right, Dr. Juraj Njavro) in the Vukovar Hospital in 1991.
Two Vukovar legends: Dr. Vesna Bosanac and Dr. Juraj Njavro,
medical doctors, humanists and patriots.
Dr. Vesna Bosanac
Dr. Vesna Bosanac was born in 1949 in the city of Subotica, and her family moved to the Borovo Naselje near Vukovar when she was less than 1 year old. Her grandmother was Bunjevci Croatian.
She studied medical sciences at the University of Zagreb, specilizing in pediatrcs.
Since July 1991, during the Serbian military aggression on Croatia, she was emolyed as the director of the famous Vukovar Hospital. Until the end of 1991, during the most savage bombing and shelling of the city, The Vukovar Hospital took care of about 4000 people during the Serbian 1991 aggression, until November 20th, 1991.
About 2250 people underwent difficult and long term operations. Each day approximately 700 (seven hundred) granades was falling on the building of the hospital. The work of medicinal staff was going on in extremely difficult conditions, often without necessary equipment, even without electricity, food and water, in the celler and atomic shelter of the hospital, since the building was totally destroyed.
With late Dr. Juraj Njavro, Dr. Vesna Bosanac is the most important person for organizing medical care in Vukovar. Both of them are decorated with the highest Croatian state distinctions.
The Vukovar Hospital in 1991
History of Croatian medicine
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Vukovar in November 1991, after three months of continuous Serbian shelling and bombing of this Croatian Baroque City.
At the entrance to the Vukovar Hospital.
From this spot, on 18 November 1991, the ex-Yugoslav Army and Serbian paramilitary
took 261 wounded Vukovar defenders, civilians and members of the hospital staff.
Two hundred of them have been assasinated, contrary to the Geneva Convention.
The destiny of the rest is unknown.
On the photo, Mrs. Verica Thune-Kostelić from Zagreb.
We provide the names of twenty emloyees of the War Vukovar Hospital executed at Ovčara near Vukovar (the mass grave contains more than 200 persons executed by Serbian military):
- Jozo Adžaga
- Ilija Asađanin
- Ivan Banrauch
- Tomslav Bosanac
- Ivan Buovac
- Dragan Gavrić
- Zlatko Jarabek
- Đuro Knežić
- Zlatko Krajnović
- Tomislav Mihović
- Tomisalv Papp
- Tomo Pravdić
- Stjepan Šarik
- Đuro Šrenk
- Zvonko Varenica
- Goran Vidoš
- Mato Vlaho
- Miroslav Vlaho
- Josip Zeljko
- Mihajlo Zera
Four employees of the Vukovar Hospital that were detained druging the Serbian occupation of the city in 1991, and whose destiny is still not known, are: - Ivan Baranjek
- Marko Mandić
- Ivan Božak
- Zovnko Vulić
Twelve identified employees of the Vukovar Hospital, assasinated or victims of the 1991 aggression: - Vlasta Aleksandar
- Karlo Crk
- Dušica Jeremić
- Ljubica Kojić
- Goran Krznarić
- Nevenka Matić
- Zdenka Miličević
- Ljubica Obradović
- Ivan Raguž
- Marica Stanek
- Blanka Stefanjuk
- Rudolf Terek
In conclusion, there are altogether thirty two (32) employees of the Vukovar Hospital, victims of the Serbian aggression on the city, and four detained employees whose destiny is unknown.
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More than two hundred and sixty Croats have been transported by the Serbs from the Vukovar hospital to the nearby location of Ovčara, killed there and dumped in a massive grave in one day. Below is the list of victims from the Vukovar Hospital. It should be emphasised that this is just a part of Vukovar's victims: there were 1624 victims of the 1991 Serbian aggression (105 of them were soldiers), 2500 wounded (500 of them invalids), and the destiny of 350 is still unknown. About 8000 people went through Serbian concentration camps, maltreated in various ways, by tortures, psychical exhausting, rapes, etc.
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In 1997 the hospital was reintegrated into the medical system of the Republic of Croatia, and in 1998 its complete renewal was started.
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 Nenad Bach and Dr. Vesna Bosanac, director of the Vukovar Hospital
Vukovar water tower is one of the symbols of the city of Vukovar during the Battle of Vukovar and the Croatian War of Independence, when the water tower and the city itself were largely destroyed by the ex-Yugoslav (i.e., Serbian) forces.
| Nenad Bach at the top of the Vukovar water tower. Stop the wars. World Peace in One Hour. Photo by Vanja Vidakovic.
Interview for Vukovarske Novine, December 9, 2016.
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