19 pharmacists manage 101 QKUK's drugstores

In September of this year, within the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo (QKUK) has opened 101 drugstores, which serve to supply clinics within this institution.

For 20 years, health experts had complained about the absence of a literal drug management system at QKUK.

Meanwhile, officials at the Ministry of Health have stated that “with these 101 drugstores -- no medicine dedicated to patients -- will be lost and will not be destroyed by being kept in abnormal conditions”.

However, for drugs placed in these 101 drugstores inside QKUK, only 19 pharmacists care.

Alban Descu, a pharmacist, tells Radio Free Europe that for 20 years pharmacies have been left out of the public system, not considered a health worker.

According to him, no other professional should have believed the leadership of a pharmacy, except for a pharmacist, so you see the announcement of the competition within KKUK for employing people in this field as necessary.

I think it's necessary that every department that works within the clinic should have a drug store, which should have a minimum pharmacist. Where the drug works, the access should be only to the pharmacist and no one else, as in the country where he works with patients, where only a doctor should have access rather than a different profession”, says Descu.

Meanwhile, Florina Berisha, chairman of the Association of Pharmacies, suggests that incumbent Health Minister Uran Ismaili, 101 drugstores inside KKUK has called them handcrafted pediments, saying that as the association, they are unaware that such a term exists. Also, it underlines, it is not defined by law or administrative direction, as to what is a handcrafted barrier.

And we, like the pharmaceutical association, have asked for the drugstores to operate only with the presence of the pharmacist. So, we asked to hire 101 pharmacists. At the moment he's a drug addict, he doesn't have a large or small drug store or a gloved drug. A pharmacist and two technicians should have a drug store. There are a total of 19 pharmacists, and they don't work in the afternoon and in the night shift, so there must be a necessity of”, Berisha says.

She adds that pharmacists' requests for public sector employment are high.

“has requests and there are pharmacists for employment, as not even 10 percent of pharmacists do not work in the public sector. About 1,300 pharmacists have Kosovo and almost 90 percent of them work in the private sector, so they are completely out of public system”, Berisha adds.

Meanwhile, Shpend Fazliu, an information official at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo, says that 19 pharmacists who are currently employed in the institution manage all drugs within the QKUK.

These mini-barnators, which are 101 soosh, are under the management of these pharmacists, but the number of pharmacists will rise and these mini-barnares will have one. That's because drug control is as good as it is in distribution. Any introduction to the drugs, currently, register and function with the folder so that there can't be any misuse of”, Fazliu says.

In Kosovo, there is no law regulating the opening of the drug store as a health institution, but that the pharmacy can also open a person who does not have the Faculty of Farmia finished.

This, according to pharmacists, should be adjusted as soon as possible, since they say, has degraded the pharmacist's profession and the pharmacist is not considered a health worker.