Ismaili: We're setting the heart surgery bases for children even at QKUK

Cardiosurgeons from Italy are staying in Pristina these days, and, along with cardiosurgeons of the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, children with heart problems are operating.

For this, Health Minister Uran Ismaili has said that the bases of peditary cardiology are being laid at QKUK. According to him, professional establishment of the Cardiodrogy staff will enable even Kosovo to start doing complex heart operations in children

We're also setting the basis for pediatric cardiology at QKUK. The team of cardiosurgeons from Italy is also helping. Those days are staying in Kosovo, with whom children with heart complications are operating. The professional establishment of the Cardiology staff will enable us to start developing complex heart operations. ”, wrote Ismaili.

By contrast, a team of doctors from Italy, led by Dr. Carlo Barzagi and Dr. Maurizio Levantino, of the Toscana Hospital in Italy, are operating patients at QKUKU.

Italian doctors have so far operated 4 patients with cardiosurgic problems and are also being assisted by cardiosurgeon doctors from Kosovo, the SHSKUK reports.

During his visit to the Cardiodrogy Service, the director - general of the Hospital Service and University Clinic, Dr. Basri Sejdiu, said this co-operation with Italian doctors is taking place within the framework of professional staff establishment and is a great help to the institution, when international cardiosurgeons operate at the University Clinical Centre.

Director Sejdiu also praised the CKUK cardiosurgeons, who, according to him, are doing the job quite well, while this collaboration with foreign doctors also leads to more complicated operations.

Dr. Maurizio Levantino, from the team of Italian doctors, said that at the request of the Ministry of Health and the region of Tuscana have come to Kosovo. Dr. Levantino, indicated that so far they have conducted four open heart operations, in co-operation with the team of cardiosurgeon doctors from Kosovo. According to him, Kosovo has good doctors who have proven professionalism even during operations.