Head of the Clinic: Primarius. Dr. Adnan Babović, MSc.

Head nurse: Edina Mešanović, graduated nurse

Secretary: Ismeta Memišević

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba; ismeta.memisevic@ukctuzla.ba

Phone: 00 387 35 303 402

Fax: 00 387 35 303 421

The first organized health care for women in Bosnia and Herzegovina begun in Tuzla in 1893, when the first specialist in obstetrics and gynecology Dr. Teodora Krajewska arrived. The Government of Austro- Hungarian monarchy had announced a competition to which applied Dr. Krajewska, who at that time was an assistant at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic in Geneva. Later on Dr. Jadwiga Olszewska also arrived to Tuzla and joined Dr. Krajewska.

Today, the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics offers a variety of obstetric and gynecologic care owing to the education of health care professionals that is essential to maintaining standards of medical competence.

The Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Clinical Center Tuzla became a Baby- Friendly accredited facility in 2004. The Clinic is currently in evaluation process for accreditation according to the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Accreditation in the FBiH (AKAZ) standards.

Within the Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, the Clinic should in the coming period receive a Mother- friendly hospital designation as well.

The Clinic consists of 10 departments with 179 beds, nine outpatient clinics, and two cabinets. The Clinic has 123 employees: 21 doctors, specialists in Ob/Gyn and 4 pediatricians- neonatologists (6 professors, 8 subspecialists, 2 assistant professors with PhD., 7 primariuses, 5 doctors MSc.), 3 doctors on residency, 13 graduated nurses, 1 graduated manager in health care, 69 nurses/technicians, 1 secretary and 1 stationery clerk.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Department for outpatient surgery with Ob/Gyn polyclinic and admission

Nurse in charge: Bediha Kurtić, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Phone: 00 387 35 303 412; 303 351

Health care services at the department include a variety of gynecological interventions and pregnancy terminations (voluntary terminations, pathological pregnancy). An outpatient department offer diagnostics and treatment of diseases in the field of general gynecology, gynecological urology and pelvic floor disorders.

The department has 10 hospital beds.

Department of Gyn surgery

Chief of the department:

Nurse in charge: Alma Imamović, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Phone: 00 387 35 303 406

 

The doctors from this department perform surgical interventions for Ob/Gyn patients. They also perform challenging surgical interventions for patients who are referred to Clinical Center Tuzla from other hospitals and clinical centers. Health care services at the department include minimally invasive endoscopic procedures (laparoscopic and hysterescopic), as well as classic abdominal and vaginal gynecological procedures.

In the postoperative period the patients are placed in the semi- intensive care unit for intensive monitoring and follow up. The department has 21 hospital beds.

 

Department of conservative gynecology

Chief of the department: Primarius Ass. Prof. Lejla Kamerić, M.D.

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 406

Health care professionals from the department perform diagnostics and treatment of a various conditions in the field of general gynecology, gynecological urology and pelvic floor diseases, congenital malformations, child and adolescent gynecology, diagnostic procedures for cervical, endometrium, labia and pubis histopathology, and pregnancy terminations (voluntary terminations, pathological pregnancy). Our goal is a minimally invasive therapeutic intervention with the fastest possible recovery and the shortest possible stay of patient in the hospital. The department has 10 hospital beds.

Department for gynecologic oncology

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Mladen Mišić

Nurse in charge: Enida Dervišević, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 406

The departments offers following health services:

  • Diagnosis, treatment and post operative management of gynecologic malignant conditions (main principles are team multidisciplinary work, latest treatment protocols, individual approach to the patient)
  • Classical radical gynecologic surgery
  • Laparocentesis (drainage of malignant ascites)
  • Palliative approach and cooperation with external palliative services
  • Education for subspecialty in gynecologic oncology

 

Department for labor and childbirt

Chief of the department: Prof.dr. Gordana Bogdanović

Nurse in charge: Lejla Subašić, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 416

  • maternity baby- friendly designation
  • a companion of choice for mother during labor and childbirth
  • an individualized approach to the women in labor
  • prenatal course for expecting women
  • painless childbirth
  • cord blood collection for the Cord Blood Banking
  • skin- to- skin contact with baby

The department has 15 hospital beds.

 

Department for newborns

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Indira Šerak, MSc.

Nurse in charge: Subhija Mujabašić, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 411

  • rooming- in (mothers and their newborns stay together)
  • postpartum course for mothers
  • supportive environment for breastfeeding

 

Department for a high- risk pregnancy

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Anela Latifagić, Msc.

Nurse in charge: Eldina Hasić, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 409

  • care for expecting women with a high- risk pregnancies that require advanced hospital diagnostics and special monitoring or care throughout pregnancy (threatened miscarriage or premature birth, hypertensive disorders, chronic placental insufficiency, diabetes and other gestational disorders; all types of multiple pregnancies).

  • maternal (in- utero) transfer of patient to our department

  • modern antepartum monitoring (cardiotocography tests of fetal reactivity with and without load; biophysical profile of the fetus and other ultrasound methods (conventional ultrasound, color Doppler), invasive diagnosis and therapy of the fetus (early and late amniocentesis, cordocentesis, drainage procedures, amnioinfusion )

  • an outpatient fetal medicine clinic

The department has 15 hospital beds.

Department for nenatology

Chief of the department: Prof.dr. Selma Muratović, pediatrician- neonatologist

Nurse in charge: Meliha Podgorčević, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 405

  • Prevention of hemorrhagic disease, metabolic screening for hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria, ultrasound screening of abdominal organs and central nervous system, selective hip screening and genetic processing are carried out for every newborn.

  • Monoclonal antibodies (prevention of RSV infections), as well as BCG and Hepatitis B vaccines, are used in the season for premature infants of low gestational age.

  • Monitoring and early detection of congenital heart defects in newborns

  • Semi- intensive care is well- equipped with a neonatal ventilator, NCPAP, two incubators, transport incubator, phototherapy, resuscitation table, aspirators, puls oximeters, infusion pumps and perfusors.

  • The most advanced post- resuscitation care for neonates

The department has 53 hospital beds.

Department for human reproduction

Chief of the department: Prof. Dr. Azra Hadžimehmedović

Nurse in charge: Edina Kukuruzović, graduated nurse

Contacts:

E-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 409

Health professionals from the department deal with diagnosis and surgical treatment of infertility and counseling for couples undergoing treatment for in- vitro fertilization. The department has 10 hospital beds.

 

Diagnosis of infertility

  • gynecologic ultrasound
  • color doppler
  • hysterosalpingography (HSG)
  • hysterosonosalpingography (HSSG)
  • spermiogram
  • diagnostic hysteroscopy
  • endometrial biopsy
  • small surgical procedures as part of preparation for medical insemination
  • endometrial biopsy
  • diagnostic laparoscopy and chromopertubation

The treatment of infertility

  • conservative
  • medications for inducing ovulation
  • ultrasound cycle monitoring
  • surgical
  • laparoscopic operations
  • hysteroscopic operations
  • psychological and legal counseling for couples in medical insemination procedures

OBS/GYN POLYCLINIC

Cabinets and ambulances:

Cabinet for a Pap test and colposcopy; working hours 8- 11 a.m. ; telephone 035 303 351

Ambulance for pathology and treatment of cervix+ colposcopy; working hours on Wednesday and Thursday 12 noon – 2 p.m.; telephone 035 303 351

Ambulance for human reproduction; working hours Tuesday 10:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. and Friday 12 noon – 2 p.m.; telephone 035 303 351

Cabinet for ultrasound; working hours Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11a.m.- 12 noon;

telephone 035 303 351

Ambulance for a high- risk pregnancy; working hours Friday 10 a.m.- 12 noon

Specialist ambulance and general gynecology consilium; working hours Monday 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m.- 12 noon; telephone 035 303 351

Oncology ambulance; working hours Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 12 noon- 2 p.m. ; telephone 035 303 351

General gynecology ambulance; working hours Tuesday 10 a.m.- 12 noon, Wednesday 10 a.m.- 12 noon, Thursday 10 a.m.- 12 noon, Friday 10 a.m.- 12 noon; telephone 035 303 351

Ambulance for neonatology; working hours Wednesday 1 p.m.- 4 p.m., Thursday 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.;

Info desk, scheduling an appointment, and getting Lab results every working day 7:30 a.m.- 4 p.m.