I send my congratulations to all members of the Military Medical Academy on the occasion of March 2 – the Day of Institution.

Owing to the exceptional expertise, professionalism and high level of medical ethics, continuing the tradition of the Hospital of Central Army, which laid the foundations for the General Military Hospital, the forerunner of today's Military Medical Academy, for almost two centuries of existence and work, you have managed to acquire an exceptional reputation in our country, and in the region.

At any time you show what the sources of medical science and the Hippocratic Oath mean and represent to you. You affirm your work with the successful results in the preventive medicine, secondary and tertiary medical treatment, education and scientific research work.

I congratulate you on holiday, confident that you will continue to be a significant factor in the military healthcare that you will achieve remarkable results and have success in your work and I wish you would keep the status of our respected medical institution.

DEFENCE MINISTER

Zoran Djordjevic