Professor Vladimir Trajković, who was recently appointed acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, sent a letter to the manager of the Silos Institute—where students have been staying for a year—to clear the premises of “unnecessary items and equipment.” The students, as we have learned, are upset and frightened because they see this move by the new acting dean as a continuation of the expulsion of students from their faculties.
The managers of the Institute for Medical Statistics and Social Medicine Silos, the coordinator of CIBID (Center for Publishing, Library, and Information Activities of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade), as well as the head of the Department of Humanistic Sciences, received a letter from the acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Vladimir Trajković, to check all security and technical conditions for the use of the premises where teaching is conducted as soon as possible, and to clear them of unnecessary items and equipment that do not serve teaching.
“Subject: Inspection of premises where teaching takes place and other faculty premises,” is the title of this letter.
It further states that all rooms should be cleared of unnecessary items that could represent a danger and a risk to the health of students and teaching and non-teaching staff.
“I ask that you implement the above as soon as possible and report to me on the established situation, as well as on all measures taken to improve the safety and functionality of the premises,” the letter emphasizes.
According to our information, students are very upset by this letter because since June of last year, it has become common practice for students to be expelled from their faculties.
Students are still in the Silos building, along with their banners, transparencies, and other posters.
As a reminder, at the end of March, the Council of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade elected a new president of that body at a session, which is the first step toward exiting a months-long institutional crisis that a group of teachers at that higher education institution had warned about on several occasions.
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Milovanović was elected president of the Council, while Dr. Marko Lens was elected deputy president.
The Council made the decision to elect Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trajković as the acting dean of the Faculty.
The students, however, did not welcome Trajković with applause—they pointed out that since the beginning of the blockades, he had presented himself as a supporter of the student movement and claimed that he had resigned from the position of vice-dean in December 2024 for that reason.
However, as soon as the first opportunity arose for the illegal dismissal of the former dean Tatjana Simić, he and Professor Nataša Milić (who was the previous acting dean) withdrew their resignations and returned to the dean’s collegium.
“In a conversation with students and professors, Professor Trajković admitted then that they decided on this after an agreement with the Minister of Health, Zlatibor Lončar,” students of the Faculty of Medicine told Nova.rs.
Incidentally, Trajković was at a recent protest in front of the Rectorate, which was organized to support Rector Vladan Đokić and Belgrade University, and in a video published on social media, a group of citizens can be seen driving him away from the protest and shouting at him that he is “Lončar’s servant.”
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Source: Nova, Photo: Medicinski fakultet