Kosovo at risk of pharmaceutical waste (Video)

This is because Kosovo has a warehouse for collecting broken drugs.

A research that has been conducted in Kosovo results in more than 80 per cent of drug users nowhere present medicines over the deadline.

There are no solutions to this problem in the Ministry of Health.

A research has shown that 80% of the drug users nowhere present the medicines over the deadline.

Nyazi Aliu, a Pristina resident, says that very often he visits pharmacies to buy the products needed for treatment, but that by the end of the term, he dumps them in the basket of ordinary waste.

Aliu is aware of the risk of being thrown into a basket, but there is no other solution.

The situation is alarming as far as the drugs are concerned, says pharmacist Muhamed Salova.

He has been talking about recent research by ECOVISIAON, supported by Denmark's Foreign Ministry, under which more than 80% of the drugs elsewhere do not present medicines over the longer term.

Shaban Osmanaj, task manager of the pharmaceutical Inspectorate at the Ministry of Health, says that in Kosovo there is no depot in which the extermination of medicines could be done over-term.

Various pharmacists have also been reluctant to speak on this matter.

Medical-farmactic waste poses a greater risk to human health than other types of waste.

This results from various toxic matter that contains medical waste.