Commissioner for the Protection of Equality Brankica Jankovic met with Ambassador of Belgium Leo D’aes, founder and director of humanitarian organization Hospices of Hope Graham Perolls and director of the Center for Palliative Care Bel Hospice Vera Madzgalj. At the meeting, they discussed the possibilities for cooperation and activities of Commissioner for the Protection of Equality.

Commissioner Jankovic stressed that age and health condition are among five most common grounds of discrimination, according to the complaints submitted by citizens. She emphasized the importance and significance of providing of care and help for people who are in the terminal phase of illness and said that the institution she is heading provides full support to all activities of this organization aimed to palliative care.

A solution of problems of these people and their families should be a priority in the following period, with a special focus on the development of mixed social-health and other services from these two systems, in order to prevent discrimination, said Commissioner Jankovic.

Ambassador D’aes expressed his satisfaction because of willingness to include these issues in activities plan of the institution of Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, while Perolls and Madzgalj thanked for the support.

Hospices of Hope is an organization founded in 1991 in London, with the initial goal of taking care for terminally ill children in Serbia and Romania. Today, it has branches in Central and South East Europe countries and USA, while it also served as a role model for palliative care centers worldwide.