Belgrade, 21 March 2025 (MIA) — Serbia is ready to provide medical care to more burn patients, if necessary, according to MIA's Belgrade correspondent citing Lieutenant Colonel Goran Rondovic, an anesthesiologist at Belgrade's Military Medical Academy hospital center.

According to Lt. Col. Rondovic in a statement to RTS, 30 people injured in the March 16 nightclub fire in Kochani were hospitalized in Serbia. 

"All my colleagues volunteered to participate in the transport, which is complicated for this kind of patients," he told the public broadcaster.

He said it was difficult to predict how long the patients with burns and inhalation injuries would need to recover.

Barring complications, improvements could be expected in a week or two at the earliest, he said.

According to North Macedonia's health authorities as of Thursday, 111 patients are currently receiving medical care abroad. This number includes the three people airlifted to Turkey and seven to Spain on Thursday evening. mr/