Kosovar patients buy medicines without description in Albanian

Before they circulate on the market, the drugs must undergo registration procedures, but the problem remains that are not registered.

Patient Merita Hasani said very often it happens that the drugs she buys don't have Albanian-language travel sheets. They are mostly in Serbian, Croatian, English, German, Turkish and other languages.

I think that there should be Albanian-language conglomerators, since as patients we also need to know the sidesides of that drug we use, regardless of how the doctor describes it. Especially when we buy drugs for our children, I definitely want to read about what they contain and what the side effects are, of which age is used and what are the symptoms caused if there are any side effects”.

Despite this, it has often happened to me that there is no description in Albanian, which I think is wrong in an Albanian language country, to be another language within the drug”, Hasani said.

Otherwise, all the drugs registered at the Kosovar Agency for Medical Products (AKPM) have sheets of guidance in Albanian but also in another language.

However, according to Arrian Ahmeti, chief of the Agency for Products and Medicine, is a category of drugs that are not registered in Kosovo, but which are necessary for specific patients. / REL