QKUUK emergency with a lot of problems

But the staff at Emergency Clinic is also facing problems in cases where numerous patients are required to perform laboratory tests.

The lab there is supposed to be for emergencies. But this rule is not being implemented by QKUUK employees. Cold cases are also being sent there.

The Express has discussed the matter with Agron Mucholl, responsible for the emergency laboratory found in the QKUK Emergency Clinic. There are up to 150 tests in this laboratory within the day.

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”, Mucholl says.

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.

In addition to lab problems, the KKUK's appointment is faced with the absence of nurses, assistant nurses, beds, spaces, drugs... this as the only emergency service of this type of tercirary level in Kosovo.

In this clinic every day, treatment requires between 120 and 250 patients from all regions of Kosovo. This situation will continue until another solution is made: construction of the new Emergency Clinic.

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.