Honorary Citizen of Ljubljana Prof. Dr. Zora Konjajev, doctor, neonatologist, pioneer of Slovenian paediatrics and partisan, has passed away.

Prof. Dr. Zora Konjajev received the title Honorary Citizen of Ljubljana in 2015. In the justification of the highest award of the city of Ljubljana we stated: 

"She was a partisan medical worker, fighter for women’s rights, world renowned pediatrician, university professor and publicist, awarded for her worthy actions during the Second World War in the Anti-Fascist Front and at a partisan civil hospital as well as for her post-war pioneer work in pediatrics when she set the highest professional standards in infant care and has, at the same time, humanised the filed by accommodating mothers with infants and allowing the fathers to be present during hospitalization. During her tenure as professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana she made her name as the founder of neonatology, pioneered the field of hospital hygiene, introduced a neurological research method for infants, established principles for preventing severe jaundice in infants, introduced diagnostics, preoperative and postoperative care of infants and became an internationally renowned scientist with her pioneering discovery in regard to cytomegalovirus infection.«