25 Mobile Clinics Coming to Serbia: Here's Where First
Is a mobile clinic headed to your village too? Serbia's Health Ministry is adding 15 new vehicles and five pharmacies, on top of ten already running that have examined half a thousand people.
Could a mobile clinic be on its way to your village? It’s a real possibility. Serbia’s Health Ministry says its fleet is growing from 10 vehicles to 25, with five brand new mobile pharmacies joining the ranks.
Deputy Health Minister Nebojsa Tasic told RTS on September 9, 2026, that an agreement with the World Bank will bring 15 more mobile clinics and five mobile pharmacies to the country. Ten clinics are already on the road, having started work on June 28, 2026, and Tasic says they’ve examined more than 400 people since then. The goal is straightforward: give people in scattered villages, especially those who are older or less mobile and struggle to reach a health center, a checkup right at their doorstep.
“Along with these 10, we’ve agreed with the World Bank that 15 new mobile clinics and five new mobile pharmacies are coming very soon. That will essentially cover the whole of Serbia,” Tasic told RTS.
He added that the new vehicles, combined with the ten already in service, will bring this form of healthcare within reach of almost the entire country.
What is the program actually for?
Tasic explains why the ministry is going into villages instead of waiting for patients to come to them.
“Mobile clinics are one of the key pillars of a preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic program with a clear goal: that every resident of the Republic of Serbia gets the most adequate and complete healthcare,” Tasic said.
He added that the clinics have reached the most remote villages and municipalities, home to people who cannot get to health centers, are less mobile, or simply skip preventive checkups. Most of the people seen on site, he said, were older, though plenty of younger and middle aged people showed up too.
What can a mobile clinic actually test?
Short answer: almost everything a small doctor’s office can.
- ECG
- lab analysis
- abdominal ultrasound
- thyroid ultrasound
- blood pressure measurement
- blood sugar measurement
“These mobile clinics are very well equipped, technically speaking, they have an ECG, the ability to measure blood pressure and blood sugar, and a lab. But what matters even more is that they’re staffed by our top healthcare workers, specialists who can respond to the needs of our population in the most appropriate way,” Tasic said.
Patients fell into two groups: chronic patients whose therapy needed adjusting, and plenty of younger people who thought they were perfectly healthy until a checkup turned up high blood pressure or changes on an abdominal ultrasound. Anyone who needed further diagnostics was referred to the nearest health center, for a CT scan, an MRI, or whatever else was required.
“A significant number of citizens have unregulated blood sugar and unregulated blood pressure, and those are things that kill our citizens,” Tasic emphasized.
Where are the clinics headed next?
Over the coming period, five mobile clinics will be visiting Nis and Kragujevac, specifically their outlying villages, followed by the Zlatibor District and several other districts. Tasic is urging residents to come in for a checkup when the clinic reaches their village, even if they feel completely healthy, since it’s a chance to catch a problem early, before it causes more serious harm.
Neither announcement about this expansion specifies how much the World Bank is investing in growing the fleet.
A similar story out of Nis, with a different team
While the mobile clinic expansion is being announced, a separate preventive program is running in parallel around Nis. Medical teams carried out their 16th checkup on September 9 in the village of Malca, part of a preventive cardiology screening drive covering villages in the area. So far they’ve visited 20 villages, roughly a third of all rural settlements in the city’s territory. For the oldest and immobile patients, the checkup is done at home, and a dedicated team then follows up on therapy and treatment.
We’ve written about something similar with the mobile mammography unit that arrived in Kikinda, where the principle is the same: healthcare comes to people it otherwise wouldn’t easily reach.
If a mobile clinic is announced in your village or municipality, it’s worth going, even without symptoms. Checking your blood pressure and blood sugar takes a couple of minutes, and catching an abnormal result early can prevent a complication that’s much harder to treat later.
