Continued emergency situation in Suhareka, residents call for help

Six days after the floods, Suhareka with villages around her is still in emergency condition.

About 50 per cent of the villages in this municipality suffered material damage. During this situation, eight injured persons received medical treatment. That's where the KSF and the Red Cross intervened. Meanwhile, material damage from this natural disaster has been estimated to have exceeded 6m euros.

Kosovo's team has visited this municipality's Sopi village, which is named one of the most damaging villages.

Some of the residents of this village have shown that the municipality has brought them some forms to record the damage, as well as sacks of lime, but they said deinfecting the houses is doing it themselves.

Ukke Ndecj relates the damage caused by water and sand in his home.

We've been flooded the entire floor, about 60 cents in the river. The punishment has made us a washing machine, freza, a power expander, and some clothes, and there are carpets, gears, they've filled the floor with sand a 10 cent floor over the ground, says Ndecaj.

He has shown that the floods have also damaged the greenhouse. And he added that they are waiting for the municipality to get help further. According to him, these floods have resulted from the tightening of the riverbed.

I don't think it came to this disaster. We ask that we be followed by the village, this river of the village, even by taking a municipal initiative of”, Rutcaj said.

Material damage in this village, in the Mazrek district, has been experienced by the family of Metom Mazreku. The family head Mazrek also said that the floods in their homes were due to the narrowness of the riverbed and the garbage in the river. He has shown that the floods have damaged his home floor, his furniture, and three cars.

The car's down there. One has her daughter's, 80 thousand euros in cash, she's got my daughter, she's got one of my sons, and one of my own, three carats got her”, Mazrek said.

He has shown that the municipality has visited and said he is hoping to compensate for the material damage.

In the same neighborhood, three houses along the river were damaged by floods. These houses belong to three Mazreku cousins.

One of the residents who didn't want to be promoted in front of the cameras said they were involved in cleaning and disinfecting houses themselves. She has told of Kosova Prees, that family head B. The nightmare of excessive fatigue and stress has undergone a heart attack and is currently in Pristina medical treatment.

The hospital is found in the hospital because of the fatigue we've been trailing our back, had an infrared, had taken it to Prizren, then from Prizren to Pristina”, L said. M.

And Enver Shaban, director of Public Services, Environment and Emergency Services in the municipality of Suhareka, has told Kosovo Press that the municipality has visited the villages and is doing the verification of damage.

He has indicated that they have already sent white bags for disinfectation and said he hopes the government will also support the remuneration of material damage.

The capacity of the Suhareka municipality is not possible to complete all the standards, well we are confident and we hope that the government, the government budget, will help us. As for the Suhareka municipality budget, it is very low, the possibilities are small”, Shaban said.

Meanwhile, the villages of Grikoc, Sopi and across the country have visited Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, along with some of the Kosovo Government ministers and deputy ministers, as well as Suhareka Chairman Bali Muharmaj.

Haradinaj has promised that the government would help compensate material damages.

The Suhareka municipality has so far earmarked 4300 thousand euros, while the government has promised that at tomorrow's meeting it will allocate 1.1m euros. /D