Prisoners help medical treatment of Serbia’s toddler

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Twenty-one inmates in Serbia's central town of Kragujevac County Prison said they would join the humanitarian action to help treat a seven-month-old boy suffering from spinal muscular atrophy Type 1, the Justice Ministry said on Monday.

Gavrilo Djurdjevic’s single treatment abroad costs some 2.5 million Euro, and he is the sixth toddler the people in Serbia are donating money for.

The first five received the money collected by SMS, auction, and other donations by public figures, athletes, and ordinary people.

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The Kragujevac prisoners collected over 270 Euro which would be paid into Gavrilo’s account.

The Ministry said that earlier, 174 prisoners from other jails had collected over a thousand Euro to treat sick children by donating part of 100 Euro Government’s aid to every adult in Serbia to help them fighting the coronavirus epidemic last year.

In 2018, the inmates and the employees donated money for a mobile incubator necessary to save the lives of newborns.

Other prisoners in correction facilities across the country donated a total of 8,700 ready-to-eat meal and 500 protective face mask they made to the most impoverished people.