FLASH
Shkruar nga Carlo Bollino
New facts/ Who keeps the devices broken in QSUT that can save the lives of Albanians for free?!
After the editorial of two days ago, through which I denounced the shame of a private healthcare that receives a life-saving therapy such as thrombectomy as a gift from the state, forcing patients with this diagnosis to find within 6 hours 20,000 euros to pour into the American Hospital, ( the only one able to apply it, otherwise the patient dies), I received many public and private comments.
Along with the feedback, I also learned some additional news, albeit anonymously, since everyone is afraid to talk about this topic. The doctors involved remain silent, because they know they are at fault. The politicians involved are silent, because they know they are not right. Honest doctors are silent, because they do not believe that anything can change. Even the relatives of the victims are silent, who, like everyone else, are afraid of reprisals, as if the loss of a family member due to ill health is not enough punishment and pain.
There are those who even thank the private hospitals for accepting the requested amount and the doctors and politicians who forced them to pay that amount, as if everything was normal. If only public health should work like this, definitely. The problem is that precisely this silence and this servility, after all, allows the system not to change.
Fortunately, protected by anonymity, someone speaks. And in this way I discovered that the situation is even more serious than I wrote. In fact, QSUT has had the equipment necessary to perform thrombectomy for years, but does not use them. This, as some are broken pending maintenance, while others are missing a necessary accessory called a "catheter". A catheter is a type of tube that is inserted into a vein, reaches the brain and releases the thrombus that would otherwise lead to the patient's death. The point is that no one tenders either to buy catheters or to carry out maintenance.
With broken machines or no catheters, the doctors of the QSUT are unable to perform thrombectomy, and patients, who are diagnosed with acute cerebral thrombosis right in the QSUT, have to start counting 6 hours to find within that time frame 20 thousand euros to pay the American Hospital, which has done both the maintenance of the equipment and the purchase of the catheters. Most of the doctors trained at QSUT work near the latter, but they are left without equipment. Well, the scandal is all here.
Whose fault is it? Of the neurosurgery doctors of QSUT who should ask the directorate of QSUT and the ministry to organize tenders? And if they don't ask for it, why don't they ask for it? Is it the fault of the QSUT directorate that does not control the operation and use of its own devices? Is it the ministry's fault that it is not informed? Or pretending not to see? In the end, who benefits from this series of negligence is the private hospital and who pays the consequences, are the citizens. The scandal about what is happening is so serious that maybe even SPAK would do well to look away.
Shëndetësia në Shqipëri është e kushtëzuar nga konflikti gjigand i interesave mes publikes dhe privatit, ku strukturat private favorizohen gjithmonë në dëm të strukturave publike. Rasti i trombectomisë, një terapi jetëshpëtuese deleguar në formë ekskluzive Spitalit Amerikan, u bë një çështje kombëtare pasi familjarët e aktorit të njohur Genc Fuga i prekur nga tromboza, bënë një apel publik për të gjetur në 6 orë 20.000 euro të domosdoshme për shtrimin në spitalin privat, pasi QSUT nuk mund të bënte asgjë.
A scandal to which the state must react immediately and correct it, either by introducing thrombectomy into reimbursable therapies (but why in Europe this therapy costs from 10,000 to 11,000 euros, while in Albania 20,000 euros?!) or by giving QSUT the necessary equipment to resume making this service free for all patients.
It would be good if at least the Ministry of Health does not continue to be silent like everyone else, leaving the situation as it is waiting for the next celebrity to make noise again. As, meanwhile, it is known, the daily troubles of ordinary people in hospitals never make noise.
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