Provincial Secretariat for Health Care, in accordance with the law and the Statute, carries out the tasks of the provincial administration in the field of health care, related to the preparation of acts for the Assembly and the Provincial Government which: regulate matters of provincial interest in health care and health insurance and improve health care, health and pharmaceutical services, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; determine measures to ensure and implement health care of interest to the citizens in the territory of the AP Vojvodina, as well as measures to ensure and implement activities in the field of public health, of interest to the citizens of the AP Vojvodina; adopt special health care programmes for certain categories of population, i.e. types of diseases that are specific for the AP Vojvodina, and for which a special health care programme has not been adopted at the republic level; adopt a special programme in the field of public health for the territory of the AP Vojvodina; found health care institutions (general hospitals, special hospitals, clinics, institutes, the Clinical Centre, the Institute or Agency of Public Health, Institute of Blood Transfusion and Institute for Anti-Rabies Protection) and exercise founders’ rights thereof; propose a plan of health care institutions network in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; provide its opinion on the abolition, merger and division of health care institutions, founded by the AP Vojvodina; determine weekly work schedule, the start and end of working hours in health care institutions, founded by it; determine weekly work schedule, the start and end of working hours in health care institutions and private practices, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina, during an epidemic and eliminate consequences caused by natural or other major disasters and emergency situations, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; determine the minimum work to be done during a strike of health care institutions, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; found the Medical Council of Vojvodina and the Ethics Committee of Vojvodina; propose a director of the Provincial Health Insurance Institute and take measures for the provision and implementation of activities, in the field of public health of interest to the citizens of the AP Vojvodina
The Provincial Secretariat for Health Care carries out executive, expert and development tasks of the provincial administration and supervises and monitors the enforcement of regulations, specified in Paragraph 1 of this Article. Within its scope of work, it monitors and assists the work of health care institutions, founded by the AP Vojvodina authorities.
The Provincial Secretariat for Health Care: puts forward a proposal to the Minister competent for health affairs to determine the number of trainees in health care institutions with the seat in the territory of the AP Vojvodina, that health care institutions are obliged to employ, so as to obtain internship experience on an annual basis; puts forward a proposal to the Minister competent for health affairs, regarding the Medical Staff Development Plan for health care institutions that are located in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; puts forward a proposal to the Minister competent for health affairs to determine referential health care institutions for certain fields of health services, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina; provides an opinion on the proposal, regarding acquisition of the title of head physicians for doctors of medicine, doctors of dental medicine and bachelors of pharmacy, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina.
The Provincial Secretariat for Health Care cooperates with humanitarian and expert organisations, unions and associations, in the field of health care; creates databases in the field of health care; monitors the work of health care services, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina. In the field of sanitary supervision and in accordance with the law, the Provincial Secretariat for Health Care carries out those conferred tasks of the state administration, which have been conferred upon the authorities of the AP Vojvodina by the law. It passes a decision on the determination of zones of sanitary protection of water sources, in the territory of the AP Vojvodina. The Provincial Secretariat for Health Care also carries out other tasks when they are conferred upon it pursuant to the law, Provincial Assembly Decision or another regulation.