There is a decline in premature infant mortality

The Kosovo Neonatologists' Association has marked the World Day of Prematures or Newborns by cernames was said to have a decline in pre-time infant mortality over the years.

Acting Health Minister Uran Ismajli said that child health care remains a priority in Kosovo society, so he said he sees it through institutions' support for health reforms.

Ismajli said that over two years as minister of this dictatorship, he has offered support for this area, until he said that now as MP from the PDK ranks, he will offer further support for resolving problems in Kosovo health.

Ishmael: Political will needed for reforms you want to achieve in health

“Has been achieved to reduce mortality to an extremely large degree, is it still a priority, and when I say our priority is not political, but our priority as a society is still to enjoy the process that we have achieved... the preservation of child health remains our priority, and when I say our priority I'm not saying it as a political class, but our priority as a society, and we should see it as our national interest as our great desire to help. During these two years of Health Ministry we've been able to add investments to give greater support, but even when I see it today it seems like it wasn't enough... there needs to be political will as well as political will that the reforms you want you to be able to manage to be backed up”, Ishmael said.

The head of the Association of Neonatologists of Kosovo, Burbuke Skiner, said that through this conference, she is trying to raise awareness and education of the challenges facing children who are under the increase of day.

According to her, compared with the year 2000, where infant mortality has affected about 30 percent of children, it now declines to 8.1 percent in 2018.

Weekend: There's reduced neonatal Mortality

During the year 2018 alone, there were 22 thousand and 761 newborn births in Kosovo. We arrived within these years to reduce the neonatal mortality from 31 promilials as it turned out in 2000 to 8.1 billion in 2018 with a tendency to still move these boundaries and get close to the countries of the region. Today Kosovo neonatology itself has 56 specialists in neonatology”, she said.

The director of the Neonatology Clinic at QKUK, Xhevdet Gojnovci, said this clinic offers secondary and tertiary services, just as the Hospital Service status predicts.

According to him, the Neonatology Clinic is a challenge facing premature births for which it required institutional support for rehabilitation and treatment of these babies.

Gojnovci: A Great Challenge in Fresty

These health services are approached by 11 thousand and 500 babies born at the Gynecological Observatory and babies born in the Kosovo regional hospital and are referred to in the Neonatology Clinic. A thousand and 780 babies are treated in intensive care of the Neonatology clinic, 340 of these in mechanical ventilation, 850 in nazal simpact. The most frequent pathologies treated in intensive care are asphyxison, intra hospital infections, anomalies, and other pathology. Among the major health problems of the Neonatology Clinic as the only service of this bark is premature, so we have not by chance chosen that through this conference, the day of child promise is known to be one of the biggest challenges”, Goynovci said.

During this international conference, organised by the Kosovo Neonatologists' Association, which will last even during tomorrow, was honoured with gratitude and neonatologist Muje Shala.