Tag: children
Macedonia 01.04.23 | 09:48

Skopje police is looking for two missing girls

Police in Skopje is still looking for two missing children, reported separately on Thursday. One, a 12 year old girl named Anisa, is missing after she was called out to leave school during class. The other is a 15 year old girl named Melisa. She would leave home before and this is not the first time...

Macedonia 11.11.22 | 16:35

“For me, every child is important…” says the Prime Minister while abusing the children from the “Detelinka” kindergarten in Josifovo for political purposes

“For me, every child is important…“ says Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski while taking a photo with the children from the “Detelinka” kindergarten in Josifovo. Children must not be a political decoration. Any occasion when a politician meets a child and is publicly photographed...

Macedonia 24.09.21 | 15:30

VMRO-DPMNE condemns the use of children in Mayor Silegov’s pre-election campaign

VMRO-DPMNE condemned the use of underage children in the latest campaign materials by Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov. Silegov got his SDSM party to place ads promoting several reconstructed paths in the main Skopje park, and had children to pose in the pictures. Also concerning is the use of an emblem with...

Macedonia 16.09.21 | 21:17

Hospitalizations of school age children fuel parent concerns

Of the 20 children who are currently being hospitalized with Covid, 15 are of school-age, Sitel TV reported. This adds to the concerns of the parents who are anxious to allow their children to attend in-person classes. According to the TV station, the hospitalized children had pulmonary issues, fever...

Macedonia 20.08.21 | 15:47

One-month-old baby is the youngest Covid-19 patient hospitalized at Kozle Children’s Hospital

A one-month-old baby is the youngest Covid-19 patient currently hospitalized at Kozle Children’s Hospital. The director of the hospital, Dr. Besnik Zekiri, told Kanal 5 that unlike last week when there was a huge influx of children positive for Covid-19 in the hospital, the situation is slowly...

Life 01.06.21 | 18:53

Children greatly affected by socio-economic consequences from the pandemic

While government COVID-19 socio-economic measures have mitigated the impact on extreme child poverty, more children are living below the average standard of living. Furthermore, disruptions to services in social protection and education and decreased demand in health services are putting children at...

Macedonia 28.05.21 | 15:04

Filipce announces vaccination of children aged 12 to 16

Health authorities in the country are considering starting vaccination of minors in the period until the beginning of the next school year. As announced by the Minister of Health, Venko Filipce, in the coming months, analyzes will be made for possible vaccination of children aged 12 to 16. According...

Macedonia 18.03.21 | 23:24

Increase in children with serious Covid symptoms

Doctor Mirjana Popovska from the Kozle children’s hospital, which is being used as a Covid center, warns that there is a growing number of children displaying severe Covid symptoms. Popovska told Sitel TV that there are currently 40 hospitalized children, and about 50 are treated as outpatients. The...

Macedonia 04.02.21 | 17:12

Abused children hospitalized in Bitola, the parents are being investigated

A couple from Bitola were detained for abuse and neglect of their children. Bitola police said that the couple was reported and the children were found with injuries. The parents are being interrogated while the children are treated in the Bitola hospital. No additional details about the case are being...

Macedonia 30.04.20 | 18:20

Filipce: COVID-19 manifests the same in children and adults

In Macedonia, COVID-19 has so far manifested the same way in children, as it has in adults, Health Minister Venko Filipce said at Thursday’s press conference answering a reporter’s question after several European countries noted a rise in children infected with coronavirus who show atypical...

Macedonia 30.04.20 | 10:12

Four children treated for Covid-19, including a four month old

Four children are currently treated in the Kozle hospital in Skopje, after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Doctor Angelco Andonovski said that the youngest of them is just months old, while one, that could have the virus was born four days ago. The hospital was set aside to treat children infected...

Macedonia 06.04.20 | 20:23

18 children under age 9 diagnosed with coronavirus

According to Public Health Institute (PHI) statistics, a total of 18 children under the age of nine have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Macedonia, all of which are in stable condition and do not require extended stays in hospital, doctor Vladimir Mikikj from the PHI said at a press conference on...

Macedonia 26.02.20 | 19:34

Coronavirus scare: Parents and relatives told they can’t visit their sick children in the Pediatric Clinic

The Pediatric Clinic in Skopje informed the public that it’s closed for visitors and urged the parents of hospitalized children to show understanding for the situation after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed. Parents and relatives are urged not to visit their sick children and are informed...

Macedonia 29.11.19 | 15:16

In the latest case of child abuse, a nanny charged with mistreating 3-year old twins in Skopje

New details emerged in the case of the nanny arrested in Skopje yesterday, who was charged with abuse and neglect. It’s the second such case in a period of just 10 days, after a shocking video led to the arrest of a nanny that was beating up a child entrusted to her care. Nanny licensing failed...

Macedonia 29.08.19 | 14:53

Social Affairs Center: Children placed in separate place and taken away from their parents

The Center for Social Affairs issued Thursday a statement regarding the case of children locked in a car in the settlement of Lisice. The Center reported that the children were temporarily taken away from their parents and placed in a foster family. Documents and official results of the police and BPPO...

Macedonia 29.08.19 | 12:08

Father of children left alone in a car was at church for Assumption of Mary Day celebration

Two children were found alone in a car parked in Skopje’s Novo Lisice neighborhood on Wednesday. The police, after citizens’ alerted, removed them from the vehicle and took them to the Clinical Center in Skopje. Eyewitnesses told Republika that the children were alone in the car and crying,...

Macedonia 29.08.19 | 10:28

Two children left alone dehydrated in a car, citizens break car window to rescue them

Two children were found Wednesday alone and dehydrated in an Alfa Romeo vehicle parked in a parking lot on Blvd. “Vidoe Smilevski Bato”. Citizens alerted, and called the police. Unofficially, one of the eyewitnesses at the event smashed the car window to get the minor children out of the...

Macedonia 05.04.19 | 13:27

Was your child born in the Republic of North Macedonia?

Was your child born in the Republic of North Macedonia? If not, how old was your child when he/she came to the Republic of North Macedonia. This is part of the questionnaire that was distributed Thursday among parents of fourth graders in some schools in Skopje.

Macedonia 08.03.19 | 18:56

Parents from Kumanovo who forced their children to beg charged with neglect

Mother and father from Kumanovo were charged with neglect after they forced their several underage children to beg. The children were taken around Kumanovo and in Skopje, where they would be driven to different busy locations and ordered to ask for money. Macedonia has a long standing problem with this...

Balkans 28.02.19 | 15:13

Croatian man threw his four children off the balcony, one girl badly injured

A disturbed 54 year old man from the Croatian island of Pag shocked the country when he threw his four small children from the balcony of his house. Fortunately all the children survived the ordeal, but a seven year old girl is in surgery with head injuries. I heard cries, came out of the house and saw...