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Journalist Osman Stafa has denounced the dire situation at the Oncopediatrics Hospital, where children suffering from cancer are facing a shortage of medicines and parents are unable to pay for the necessary treatments.
In the show "This Week" on News 24, Stafa emphasized that not only the Oncopediatrics Hospital, but also the Trauma Hospital and many other health institutions in Albania are facing severe shortages of necessary medications and equipment, making it impossible to perform scanners for cancer patients.
This has forced many citizens to spend large sums of money in private or foreign hospitals. The staff sharply criticized the failure of the concessions and the lack of funds for patient tests and treatments.
" Some time ago, I was at the Oncopediatrics hospital for children suffering from cancer with a group of young people to organize their birthday parties to give them emotions as they were fighting for their lives in the hospital, and I must emphasize the lack of medications in that hospital and those children were forced to leave. The parents were unable to pay for the medications.
It was very painful and I could not sit still and I reported it as a case. Also in the oncology department I noticed that there was a lack of medications for the sick and it was inhumane. Even in the Trauma hospital there is no cardiosurgeon and the operations are performed by general surgeons. Then you realize that in Albania patients suffering from cancer cannot have a scanner and we are the only country in the region. Even in Macedonia and Greece you can do it and only we do not have it and it is a very important device for people suffering from this disease. Citizens are forced to go either to private hospitals or to Turkey and Macedonia paying 2000-3000 euros.
Another problem was that you can't do the tests, they are postponed to the next month because the fund runs out and the concession of laboratories has resulted in a failure throughout Albania. Even people with disabilities who need a camp, to do some simple tests you always have to tell them that you are suffering from something.
They go to do some tests but they decide after 3 months while the commission may have requested it next week and they are forced to go to a private hospital paying around 200-300 thousand lek. It is the doctors who have shown me and trusted me and I will not betray them until the end.
I will not back down because a crime is being committed against Albanians. Tomorrow it could happen to us or our families. As a result of the protests and denunciations that have been made public and as a result of determination, I am saying with conviction that half of the medications in hospitals have been secured and this has come as a result of making it public. My sources are also at the Ministry of Health and are so close to those who run the hospital and how they react after every denunciation. They have also told me that in recent days the shortages have continued.
Even for people who need radiation, there are only 2 elevators that break down once every two weeks. I think that before TikTok or other problems that can be solved, we should also give importance to health, ”he said.
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