Assurance & security

Assurance

You have no need of the assurance in Serbia-Montenegro. Your blue international card gives you automatically the right to the health care/repatriation being necessary in the case of great physical problems. Anyway Serbia-Montenegro is in the same institution like other. Its assurance is the same as of other European countries.

Security

Above all there is no danger to a tourist in Montenegro, as well as in Serbia. On the contrary, it will be nursing this financial and potential Heavens’ grant in a country open again to tourism. The hunting of trafficants and gangs of any kind has been in full swing and, like in the American pictures, it has not been infrequent to see the police arresting someone long time searched after rather by force with the creaking of the tyres. The police had been purified of its elements connected to the ancient regime, and especially had been restructured in a manner to combat the new traffics (the drogue, procurement, great bandits). This has been expressed by a lot of 4/4 entirely new patrols and an armament worthy of Robocop.

Travel alone

The custom of the strangers cruising much between the private firms, international institutions and humanitarian organisations is making many people crossing the roads makes the inhabitants of Serbia-Montenegro impermeable to all temptations. You would for sure find the “Latin lovers” on the beaches of Montenegro and in the Belgrade discotheques, but no more than in Paris. More seriously the women show themselves in public only in pairs in the streets. Otherwise it would be indecent. Even in the night places, the famous “carriage” of the women typically Slav there was of more than one. What makes a girl travelling through the country and when one proposed to help her with he luggage, it were a true courtesy.

Health

The prodigious care in Serbia-Montenegro have been paid in the height of the real expenses and in the limits of a German charge, But very frequently the charges have been so low that an urgent consultation you have not been to pay for, were 230 Dinars. For the pharmacy it may become more interesting to require a postponed payment. The top has been 65% the real price, thus keep totally justifiable the medical expenses with the exchange in Euro.

Consult the general practice doctors in a hospital or in a dispensary. For the beginning of fever or for a spraining be at the nearest dispensary –“Dom zdravlja”. They may be recognized by a red cross on the white background and you will receive a medicine from the office. The reception has been correct, but at least you could be sure you found a quick solution for your health problem.

The pharmacies “apoteka” are numerous enough, and in the two capitals, Belgrade and Podgorica, their density is even greater than in a great town in Germany. Like in Germany, you will find a pharmacist or a doctor on duty by consulting the list in a pharmacy or on the last page of a journal. The great problem there is that after 1990s the medicines produced in Western laboratories are often not to be found. In the case of a medical treatment in current you better start with a corresponding stock because it could be possible that your medicine does not exist under the same name. The advantage of the Serbo-Montenegrin system is that you may get the medicines without a medical prescription.

Otherwise there is no risk of tropical diseases seen on this latitude. Be aware not to want to become too tan on the ski pathways of Kopaonik or on the beaches.

Useful telephone numbers

POLICE : tel 92
AMBULANCE : tel 94
FIRE : tel 93
HOSPITAL IN BELGRADE : tel 618 444