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The basic health check-up, known as check-up, is in its last year. When 9 years have passed since this program offered through a public-private partnership, experts raise questions about what it was for, when it did not generate any data on the health status of Albanians.
" What positivity did this check up have? We are spending 8 million euros per year, what did we get back, there is no report on this, nor from the scientific side, there is no publication to find something that these data are helping the state to make its decisions as rationally as possible? How many people with diabetes are there, how many with cancer ", said epidemiologist Ilir Alimehmeti, for "Euronews Albania".
Another problem of this control, in the judgment of Alimehemet, is the exclusion of this control for people over 70 years old, who need periodic controls more than once a year.
" These people are excluded, people who have some pathologies and are excluded from the scheme because they are not excluded ", said epidemiologist Ilir Alimehmeti.
According to him, the determination to perform a check-up once a year for every person from 35 to 70 years old is not well thought out.
"A 35-year-old goes to the doctor to do this check-up and comes out healthy, for what reason will he come back and once 36 years old, there is no reason because at that age we don't expect diseases to evolve so quickly, from the rest of us a 65 years old who has hypertension, fat may need more than once a year, for example, for diabetics, hemoglobin should be done every 3 months, then how can we say no after a year as a healthy person" , said epidemiologist Ilir Alimehmeti.
The Check up concession is considered by some experts as abusive. Although it is provided for analysis and several modules on stress, smoking, and alcohol, they have never been implemented.
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