Emergency lab loaded with emergency analysis

At the Emergency Clinic of the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo staff is facing problems, in cases where numerous patients are required to perform laboratory tests. The lab there is supposed to be for emergencies.

But despite that, according to Dr. Agron Mucholli, responsible for the emergency laboratory, most of the tests carried out there are cold “ <x1)> (not emergency), which, according to him, makes it impossible for the realisation of the labs to fit into their jobs.

We have as many as 150 cases of a day as high frequency. We also have emergency tests, like heart attacks, and so on. This is a caregiver's service, but it's overloaded with non-urgent cases, which take turns on those who are really emergency cases but who should wait to get into the work series. This is a big overload”, Muchill says of Radio Free Europe.

Unurgent cases, he points out, come with medical instruction, and even the labs cannot refuse.

“also, even working conditions in the lab are not right. But within options, according to the responsibilities, we try to do all the lab analysis. The device is quite old and amortized”, Mucholl points out.

On the other hand, Shemsie Vesli, a member of Kosovo's University Clinical Hospital Service Steering Board, tells Radio Free Europe that considering the importance of the labs, where it is actually the first step to start treating patients, there should be equipment for the latest word of technology.

It's the Biochemistry Clinic lab, especially the emergency one. Various tests and requirements are not compatible with the disease. We also have a problem with clinics, which I've also raised in the highest instance”.

I think one of the priorities is to promote diagnostics and it should be the last word of technology, because that's where the patient” is diagnosed, points out Wessel.

According to Wessel, it is currently being worked in this laboratory with extraordinary devices that fail to meet the standards of the World Health Organization.

“Flux has been added a lot after we've been equipped with reagents needed for laboratory analysis. The low standard of citizens causes the flow to be unaffordable, since at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo the amount paid for these tests, compared to private hospitals, is symbolic”, says Wessel.

The Emergency Clinic is the comprehensive reference centre for all of Kosovo. Although such, it has consistently faced various problems, such as lack of drugs from the essential list, lack of middle staff, as well as lack of space needed to treat patients. The flight of patients there, as health professionals say, is often unaffordable.