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BELGRADE,
May 20th, Hospital "Dragisa Misovic"
NATO again made a "mistake". This time it caused the destruction of Belgrade's "Dragisa Misovic"
hospital. NATO missiles levelled to the ground the neurological ward of Belgrade's Dragisa Misovic
clinical centre soon after midnight on Wednesday, severely damaging the children's and gynaecological
wards, Dr Radisav Scepanovic, the centre's director, said early on Thursday. Three patients in
the neurological ward were killed in the explosion. Two women in labour and a small number of medical
staff were injured. Patients from other wards were evacuated soon after the attack. According to Dr
Scepanovic, patients from the children's ward were transferred to other hospitals, those from
the maternity ward to the Narodni Front gynaecological clinic, while patients who were in wards
located on the clinical centre's upper floors had been transferred to its basement. The damage to
the hospital buildings is extensive, especially to the maternity ward. So far NATO has confirmed that
one of their laser guided bombs have gone astray thursday night, but they still declined to admit
that it was responsible for hitting a hospital.
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