Ratniku ni svetlo – Vesti online

Illness, poverty and impotence forced Miloš Jovanović, a warrior from Košar and a resident of the secluded village of Troštica in Golija, to ask for the help of good people on the threshold of another winter.

First of all, comrades from Serbia, Republika Srpska and Montenegro and benefactors from the white world, especially the readers of “Vesta” who have helped him the most in recent years. He has been a ward of our Humanitarian Bridge for almost a decade, and before this winter, the humanitarian diaspora is his only hope.

Once again, this brave defender of Serbia is in trouble because he cannot buy medicine and pay off his electricity debt with the social assistance, which is less than 100 euros, and since he has no other income, he is unable to buy flour and other foodstuffs and feed himself and his sister Marina. . He says that he was particularly worried by the warning from the Novi Pazar electric distribution company that if he did not immediately settle the debt of around 200 euros, he would be cut off.

Pressing pain

– I just miss being left in the dark, in addition to all the other troubles. That danger is constantly over my head because, although we use very few kilowatts, for a few light bulbs, a TV, a washing machine and a refrigerator, I cannot pay the electricity bills. I simply have nothing to do – Miloš complains and emphasizes that the debt is quickly doubling or tripling, that the interest is also coming and that he is getting into more and more trouble day by day.

There were promises from Novi Pazar and Belgrade that, until he received his disability pension, at least the electricity would be free and that his electricity would not be cut off because of his debts.

– Unfortunately, none of that. It’s as if I didn’t give anything to this country. I shed blood in Kosmet for Serbia and lost my nerve and health, and the state can’t even provide light for me, a poor and seriously ill person – he adds.

Miloš explains that both his sister Marina and he are incapable.

– I am totally disabled, and my sister had a severe leg fracture and is still recovering. We are powerless to do anything and earn. If it weren’t for the good people who built us a house of 50 square meters and occasionally send us a donation, I don’t know how we would survive. Every threat to turn off the electricity, which we have nothing to pay for, shakes me even more and makes me sick – laments Miloš and reminds that after returning from Kosovo, he did not have a health card for 18 years, so he had to pay for every medical examination and every medicine, usually borrowed.

Severely disabled

He hoped that, after the military doctors at the VMA concluded that he was severely disabled, he would receive at least a minimal disability pension or some help.

– I thought that as someone who bled for this country, I at least deserve that. Seven years have passed since then, and there is still nothing from my pension. And that little bit of social welfare that I received, not even enough for bread, was suspended for a while, I don’t know why – adds Miloš.

Hido Muratović, a well-known humanitarian from Novi Pazar, says that it is pitiful and sad that the state treats Miloš like this.

– For so many years, he did not have free treatment. It was only under pressure from the media that he was allowed to be screened at the VMAs. He didn’t even have a roof over his head and was starving, and now, when comrades-in-arms and good people from all over the world built him a modest house, the state is leaving him without light or any help. It’s a bad message to young people – says Muratović, who eight years ago was the first to bring humanitarian aid to Miloš, his late mother Rosa and sister Marina.

He invited all Miloš’s comrades and benefactors from our diaspora to help him.

– Miloš is a meritorious warrior, a serious patient and an even more difficult pauper. Without serious care and help from the state, which for now is not there, good people are his only hope – says a well-known humanitarian.

Heart problems

Due to the horrors and traumas he survived as a beardless soldier in the battles on the Serbian-Albanian border, Miloš is severely disabled due to metabolic and hormonal disorders. Although he was only 20 years old and 70 kilos when he returned from Kosovo, he gained weight to 160 kilos, it is difficult to move, he has major problems with heart and stomach diseases, and to make the trouble even worse, he also faces serious psychological crises.

Only two donations

Previously, Miloš received much more help, so he waited out the winter with firewood and solid supplies of flour and medicine. During this year, he received only two donations, a total of around 250 euros, and it was all spent on medicines. Since winter is approaching, firewood is now his biggest concern, he doesn’t have his own forest, and he has to save at least 600 euros to buy wood, and whether his house will be warm depends solely on human kindness.