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Juraj Njavro
Croatian medical doctor and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juraj Njavro (2 July 1938 – 15 September 2008) was a Croatian medical doctor and politician.
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Njavro was born in Cerovica, near Neum in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina). He attended elementary school here and gymnasium in Dubrovnik, Croatia.[1]
He served as a surgeon Vukovar's hospital during the city's intense siege within the Croatian War of Independence.[2] He continued to work in the hospital right up until the fall of the city to Serb forces.[3] Njavro was subsequently imprisoned and taken to the Sremska Mitrovica camp in Serbia.[2] In late 1991 Njavro was released as part of a prisoner exchange.[1]
He took part in Croatia's first post-independence parliamentary elections in 1992 and was elected as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union. From 12 August 1992, to 12 October 1993, he served as Croatia's Minister of Health.[4] He served as a minister without portfolio from 12 October 1993, to 7 November 1995, won reelection in 1995, and served again without portfolio from 13 November 1996, to 19 December 1997.[5][6] From 19 December 1997, to 27 January 2000, he served as Minister of Defenders from the Homeland War.[6] He was reelected again in 2000 and retired in 2003.[7]
Njavro wrote a book about his internment during the war entitled Glava dolje, ruke na leđa. After his retirement he served as the president of the Association of Croatian volunteer doctors 1990–1991.[7]
He died on 15 September 2008, in Zagreb and was buried in the city's Mirogoj Cemetery.[8]
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