Welcome

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am honoured and delighted to extend warm greetings to all participants attending the First South Eastern Europe Health Network Regional Conference on Organ Donation and Transplantation "Heart to the Region-" Beating towards Self-Sufficiency" and the 29^th SEEHN meeting. It will be our great honour and privilege to have all of you as our distinguished guests and leading experts here in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

After a decade of successful regional cooperation in the area of public health, Croatia would like to highlight the importance of the highly complex and challenging field of organ donation and transplantation, in which remarkable progress has been made. We hope that the experience and tangible results achieved to date for the benefit of our citizens can serve as a role model for other SEEHN countries facing similar needs, opportunities, and challenges.

With warmest regards, I wish this Conference and Meeting to be a great success for us all. Additionally, I would also like to invite you to find time to experience the rich cultural heritage of Zagreb and to partake first hand in the well known hospitality which Croatia extends to our guests.

All the best and I look forward to seeing you soon!

Professor Rajko Ostojić, MD, PhD
Minister of Health