Great flux patients at KKUK, lack of medical staff

KKUK Neonatology Clinic Director Jevdet Goynovci acknowledges that the lack of nurses and the start of the summer season will make it difficult to provide quality services at this clinic. According to him, 15 nurses are needed in the clinic. And we don't recruit nurses and there's a shortage of them in the Neonatology Clinic. Summer vacations make it even harder to offer quality health services at the clinic. On the basis of our assessment and on the basis of our needs according to the World Health Organization, the Neonatology Intensive Service should be a nurse for two babies, so we also submitted the request for 15 nurses”, he said.

Gojnovci has said that how the ongoing clinic has repeated demands for recruiting young nurses, but have not yet received answers from relevant institutions.

Annual holidays are expected to make the work of doctors even more difficult at other QKUK clinics. Paddy Clinic Director Drita Telaku has said that because of summer holidays, they need more nurses. Perhaps medical personnel, nurses are asking for more because it's barking and summer vacations, so the average staff is sometimes short of”, she said.

The Telaku has stressed that in order for the work in this clinic to not be blocked, doctors coordinate when they will take their summer vacation. It's something that happens every year, so they go on vacation, but they go co-ordinatedly, a pair goes on a line so that the job doesn't get stuck “, she said, writes the newspaper “Voice”.

As temperatures rise, so has the number of patients at the CKUK Emergency Clinic. The caregiver at this clinic, Avdush Baygora, has said that the flow of patients to this clinic is great, even now when it is time for doctors to take the annual vacation. He has said that despite this doctors work hard and cope with the large number of patients. “is working hard at the Emergency Center. Work bubble is huge. We're always prepared 24 hours. We do the best job in the entire QKUK and we deal with the big flow from all over”, he said.

Syla: 5,000 doctors are absent, co-ordinated annual holidays

With the start of the period when medical staff use their annual holidays, the Federation of Health has appealed to become a management of how to take vacations from health personnel so that all services required by citizens can be covered.

The head of the Federation of Kosovo Health Unions, Blerim Syla, has told “Zerin” that now when the flow of KKUK patients will start to rise there will be a lack of framework. “Now we have holidays, some that have been left last year. I have also sometimes appealed to the management that should become an assessment and a system of taking off and exploiting annual holidays. Now we also have a huge flow of wine, but there's also a lack of the framework. It is left to the management director of how the vacuum will be covered, which would cover the” services, he stated.

Syla has further stated that to cope with the large number of patients, young doctors must also be employed because health - care institutions need 5,000 doctors. We as Federation have always said that we are in want of 5,000 health workers. It is imperative because a nurse at night serves with 40 to 60 patients and it is impossible to provide quality service. They have to be hired where they can be. You don't have to look at the budget, he's being spent as he wants. It must be seen as many as possible employed, otherwise we will not be able to cope with this” crisis, he added.

Millaku: The ministry does not plan “B” for summer vacation

Health Parliamentary Commission member Drita Milaku has criticised the Health Ministry for the current situation in public health institutions in the country. She has said that already during the summer season when the number of patients doubles, the ministry has not made a plan “B” in terms of health services. “Unfortunately, we have a ministry that promotes only marketing, not work, for that we have the situation. In summer vacation, the population doubles. These guys don't have a plan for what they should do, but they're working on themselves from the head of”, she said.

As for summer vacations, Milaku has estimated that there is no good management in regard to vacationing. “Problem is management. The staff should be well managed, and not all at the same time given vacation”, she added.