Health Minister Vili Beroš Intro Speech: “We want to send a strong message of unity and a vision of Europe that grows, connects, gathers and protects its citizens and oncology patients!”

roatian Minister of Health prof. Vili Beroš during welcome address pointed out:

“By co-organizing this important High Level Policy Forum on the topic of inequalities and injustice in oncology care for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we want to send a strong message of unity and a vision of Europe that grows, connects, gathers and protects its citizens, a Europe that is assertive and open towards the neighborhood and globally.

These postulates were the fundamental pillars of the historic Croatian presidency of the European Union, and that is why this conference is being organized today in the place where, in the not-so-ideal conditions of the pandemic, concrete European action to fight cancer started! And that is why we are here today, and we are proud to be a regional leader in this kind of health policy narrative, with numerous respectable partners, from the European Commission and the Parliament, to numerous nongovernmental organisations and oncology patients associations, so that we could all together contribute in a joint mission of a healthy, real, strong and digital Europe where nobody should die of cancer.”