Soko Banja

SOKO BANYA is a health center for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of nonspecific lung diseases. It is the scientific and teaching base of the Faculty of Medicine in Nis. The center is equipped with modern equipment: an X-ray room, a laboratory, a department for respiratory and general locomotor rehabilitation.

Modern diagnostics include ECG, spirometry with bronchodilator test, Body-test, KPV, blood gas analysis, biochemical and microbiological examination, allergic examination, X-ray diagnosis. Therapeutic department: manual massage, underwater massage, paraffin therapy, radon water inhalation with or without drugs, respiratory therapy, hydrotherapy, oxygen therapy, locomotor physiotherapy.

Location: located in eastern Serbia, 234 km from Belgrade and 60 km from the city of Nis, on the slopes of the Ozren and Rtan mountains and the banks of the Moravica River, at an altitude of 400 m above sea level.

Climate: temperate continental.

Natural healing factors: sources of thermal mineral waters with a temperature of 28 – 45 °; radioactive gas radon.

Medical indications:

• Diseases of the respiratory organs of children and adults (bronchial asthma, acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchial ecstasy, emphysema, sinusitis)
• Rheumatic diseases
• Post-traumatic states
• Chronic gynecological diseases
• Neuralgia, radiculitis, neuroses
• Stress syndrome and managerial illness
• Mental and physical exhaustion

Special programs:

• school for asthmatics
• smoking cessation school