The article focuses on the overcrowding of the General State Hospital in Ljubljana during the period between the wars, although this hospital also faced other personnel and staffing problems. The ...spatial problem exceeded the limits of the bearable and was not only a Slovenian, but to a large extent an all Yugoslav problem. Criticisms regarding the poor financial, spatial, and staffing situation of hospitals were coming in from the banovinas (subdivisions of the state). The pressures on the central government to solve the problems were increasing. The state operated within its financial capabilities; especially during the period of the economic crisis, the Ministry of Social Policy and National Health could solve and regulate only the basic issues. The problem of hospitals was addressed more thoroughly by the Minister Dragiša Cvetković, who made concrete proposals for the drafting of a new act on hospitals. It seemed that things could slowly be put right, but the positive development was interrupted by the war. The spatial problem of the central Ljubljana hospital was not solved.
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