The Goražde City Council yesterday adopted a decision to name a street after Dr. Dušanka Vujasić, a dentist who showed exceptional courage and humanity during the most difficult days of the war, sharing her fate with the citizens of Goražde.
The decision was adopted based on an initiative launched last year by the Chairman of the City Council Dženis Ćulov. In this way, Dr. Dušanka Vujasić will become the first woman to have a street named after her in Goražde since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
Dr. Vujasić, born in 1957 in Belgrade, moved to Goražde in the early 1980s after her marriage and soon found a job at the Health Center as a dentist, where she quickly gained the trust and respect of her patients.
“When the first shells began to fall on Goražde in May 1992, she decided to stay at the Health Center where she worked and help the citizens. Although she was a Belgrader, who had come to work in Goražde a few years earlier, it was certainly easier for her to leave. The people of Goražde would understand that. However, she was guided by the honorable principles of her medical profession and a sense of responsibility towards the people who needed her. That is precisely why her decision to stay with this city has even greater weight and value. It is also true that Dr. Dušanka Vujasić deserved this recognition much earlier, but it is important that we as a community made the decision to have her name permanently inscribed on the map of our city,” said Chairman Ćulov.
During the siege of the city, when health institutions worked in extremely difficult conditions, Vujasić, in addition to her primary job as a dentist, helped care for the wounded and supported patients and colleagues in the hospital.
She died on April 27, 1993, when a shell hit the building of the Health Center, together with her colleague, dentist Hasan Imamović. At the time of her death, she was six months pregnant. Their names, along with other colleagues, are also engraved on a memorial plaque at the Goražde Cantonal Hospital.
Ćulov announced that the unveiling of the street name plaque will be held on the day of her death, April 27.
“We are also expecting the arrival of her son Boban from Belgrade at that time, who will also bring letters that his mother sent him during the war years while she lived and worked in Goražde. By deciding to name a street after Dr. Dušanka Vujasić, Goražde is permanently preserving the memory of a woman who, driven by professional and human responsibility, stood by this city in the most difficult moments of its history,” said the Chairman of the Goražde City Council.
