Today is World Asthma Day, and Macedonia, as CIVIL – Center for Freedom announced, has marked this day with a lack of drugs. The Ministry of Health marked it braggingly with a press conference on new postoperative “measures” that will turn healthcare workers into administrative workers or telephone operators.

The State Inspection has not received salaries for two months, whereas the State commission for decisions in the second instance in the area of the inspection supervision and misdemeanor procedures is in stagnation, for which the citizens suffer the most.

One day after marking World Press Freedom Day, a fierce debate emerged on the social networks between journalists, instead of at yesterday’s debate organized by the Government and the AJM, where they left their colleague Hajdarpashic to defend the dignity and honor of the journalists and media workers by himself.

CIVIL – Center for Freedom announced a call for participation in international summer school on dealing with the past, which will be held from 22nd to 28th July in Prizren Kosovo. All interested high school students in Macedonia, 16-17 years old, have the right to participate.

Also, CIVIL’s call within the “Civic Lenses” project on the seminar for citizen journalism in Stip is still ongoing. All citizens from the municipalities of Stip, Vinica, Kocani, Radovis, Probistip, Ceshinovo-Obleshevo and Karbinci have the right to participate. The one-day seminar will be held at the House of Youth on May 12, starting from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Today’s day was also marked by a conference on the importance of expanding access to quality early childhood education and protection, as well as the regional and global trends and practices on the importance of early childhood development, at which 50 representatives from the Western Balkan countries took part. Representatives from Macedonia were Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Mila Caroska and Minister of Education and Science, Renata Deskovska.

From the historical past, today we also mark 115 years since the death of Goce Delchev, a Macedonian revolutionary, and 38 years since the death of Josip Broz Tito, the lifelong President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Biljana Jordanovska