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In the Cardiac Surgery Service at QSUNT, this device is missing, there has never been such a device. For a similar function, but with a much more limited effect than ECMO, there is an extracorporeal circulation device.
A life-saving device called ECMO is missing from the cardiology department at QSUNT. The device serves in emergencies not only for heart diseases, but also for lung diseases.
The ECMO apparatus continuously pumps blood from the body and then distributes it through devices that increase oxygen and remove carbon dioxide until the patient is stabilized.
Journalist Osman Stafa has denounced the lack of the device, stating that it does not cost more than 200 thousand euros, while at least 50 patients lose their lives every year as a result of its lack.
The Supreme State Audit Office has also reacted to the case, officially confirming the lack of this life-saving device. According to the Supreme State Audit Office, this device is missing from the Cardiosurgery service at QSUNT, and there has never been such a device.
"Regarding the issue that the Cardiac Surgery Service is missing a very important device for the lives of ECMO patients, as part of the verification process on 13.02.2025 in the Cardiac Surgery facilities, a meeting was held with the Head of the Cardiac Surgery Service and the Head Nurse of the Ward.
According to them, "ECMO/extracorporeal membrane oxygenation equipment serves to continuously pump blood from the body and then distributes it through devices that increase oxygen and remove carbon dioxide until the patient is stabilized."
In the Cardiac Surgery Service at QSUNT, this device is missing, there has never been such a device. For a similar function, but with a much more limited effect than ECMO, there is an extracorporeal circulation device.
"Such advanced medical equipment helps patients with serious health problems, especially in cases where the lungs and heart do not function properly ," emphasizes the SSA.
Journalist Stafa, in his denunciation on social media, emphasizes that while Prime Minister Edi Rama spends a full 4.3 million euros on the Garden of Eden at the Prime Minister's Office, the Albanian state does not spend 200 thousand euros to purchase a life-saving device.
In July 2024, the Minister of Health, Albana Koçiu, announced that the Tirana Regional Hospital Center "Shefqet Ndroqi", which serves patients with respiratory diseases throughout the country, has been equipped with ECMO.
The minister herself claimed that this is a life-saving medical device for treating patients in serious condition with pulmonary and cardiac problems.
Koçiu claimed that the device serves as a lung for the patient.
So the Minister of Health is clear about the importance of such a device, which is otherwise considered by doctors as an oxygenating membrane, which serves extremely seriously ill patients. The simple question that arises is why in QSUNT, where there is also a cardiology service, including cardiac emergencies, such a device is missing? /Pamphlet/
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