8 minutes agoThe essential list of drugs in Kosovo has not been updated for 6 years
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Until in the countries of the region every two years the necessary changes to the essential list of drugs are made, in Kosovo this list has not been changed at all for six years now. This has resulted in about 30 percent of the medicines of 288 are not exploited, reports KTV. So the University Clinical Center of [...]
This has resulted in about 30 percent of the medicines of 288 are not exploited, reports KTV.
Therefore, the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo is forced to spend over 1m euros on drugs not found on the essential list within a year.
While many other drugs are forced to require patients to buy them themselves.
Citizens say this is costing them almost as much as private clinic treatment.
The Association for Patients' Rights says that for the realisation of a functional list, there must be criteria and its change to be made on an annual basis.
Don't change the essential list for six years, according to the Health Ministry, Ismaili Bridge, has caused financial damage.
He promises that by the end of the year, the list will be changed.
Besides changing the essential list of drugs, Ismaili says it will also increase its budget, since this year the ministry's budget has increased for 10 million.
