Croatia signs Resolution aimed at improving treatment of autistic persons

Croatia signs Resolution aimed at improving treatment of autistic persons

Officials of health ministries from 11 Southeast European countries signed in the Albanian capital of Tirana on Friday a resolution aimed at ensuring development and socialisation of persons with autism and creating a medical network for those persons, the Croatian Health and Social Welfare Ministry said.
The Tirana Pledge was signed on behalf of Croatia by State Secretary Ante Zvonimir Golem, who said that around 8,000 persons in Croatia suffered from autism.

The purpose of the document is to ensure coordinated work of the countries-signatories in raising public awareness of the problems of people suffering from autism and help create conditions to improve services for persons with autism and standardise their quality.

The countries-signatories also pledged to meet every two years to check what has been done and to encourage the public health systems to improve their treatment of autistic persons.

On the margins of the Tirana meeting, Albanian Health Minister Petrit Vasili and State Secretary Golem signed a plan for cooperation in health and medicine for the 2010-2013 period, based on an agreement between the two governments.

It is estimated that one in 110 people in the world is affected by autism.