Patients in Kosovo hospitals go to health, but risk contracting infections

In Kosovo hospitals the rate of infections, after research by the National Institute of Public Health, has emerged to be higher than 7 percent.

However, microbiologist Lull Raka of the National Institute of Public Health tells Radio Free Europe that this percentage is not real, as he says it should be higher. He underlines that the percentage presented has emerged as a result of the failure of all samples for corresponding analysis.

Analysis has highlighted the presence of so-called superbacteria, which includes the University Clinical Centre and all regional hospitals. They are called superbacteria because they are resistant to antibiotics.

The most severe form of infection is seps. One of the patients infected with seps, at KKUK, continues to face health problems.

This patient's daughter, Mirlinda, relates about Radio Free Europe her father's experience of becoming infected after surgery.

My dad is at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo. It was operated there in the Abdominal Clinic after a problem. The operation went well and was released at home, but then his condition deteriorated, and after we had taken him into custody, doctors realized he had contracted infection, since CRP (a test showing his condition) was very high. Still lying in the hospital, his condition has been quite severe. He's won Seps and it's all been found that it's been won during Operation”, Mirlinda shows.

Microbiologist Lull Raka explains that in industrialized countries worldwide, each fourth patient who is in intensive care gets infection, or about 25 percent of patients. Until in undeveloped countries, 66 percent of patients receive infection once they enter intensive care.

Hospital infections are a challenge everywhere. The most endangered units are those of surgery and intensive units. In countries of the European Union, there have been some 7 percent of the world's <x1).

“A research done in Kosovo has come under the expected scale, so 7.2 and there have been some interpretations for this small expected number. And we think that (is) the lack of diagnostic capacities in all Kosovo hospitals, as this research has been done throughout Kosovo”.

For example, as a more frequent infection in Europe, we have a very small number, but I don't think samples are sent as far as they are actually, and that percentage I don't think is real”, says Raka.

On the other hand, Sali Ahmeti, infected, says that patients with infections remain a challenge, like one of the most severe forms of infection.

“Infectics is the clinic in which infections and postoperative infections are a particular problem for developed countries, especially in developing countries. These are caused by microorganisms that are resistant to most of the drugs applied to the practice of treating patients and that can produce severe, even sceptre infections and can lead to secret shocks and endanger patients' lives”.

The latest “is increasingly faced with prodigious and lower immunity, which are more likely to be attributed to” infections, Ahmeti points out.

The National Institute of Public Health has capacities for detection of the genes of resistance, which in a day can determine whether it has anything to do with superbacteria and measures taken. / REL