New equipment, Ismaili: Starting transformation of Sy Clinic

The first container of equipment worth 350 thousand euros has been inaugurated at the Ophthalmology Clinic.

This supply of this clinic with the necessary device increases its capacities for diagnosing and operating of Pristina's eyes diseases .09.07.2019 Minister of Health, Uran Ismaili, has visited the Tethamology Clinic in KKUU today.

During this visit, Minister Ismaili has inaugurated the new and very necessary equipment that was recently purchased for the clinic. Minister Ismaili said that all citizens who have had eye problems and so far have been treated outside public health institutions, now these services will start taking over at KKUK.

“Today is another good day for health. We are also beginning the transformation of a clinic, which for many years has impoverished the citizens' pocket and state budget. With new equipment, all diagnostic and operating services for eye disease can now be taken at the Orthalmology Clinic at QKUE”, the minister Ismaili has said.

The director of the Ophthalmology Clinic, Adem Miftari, said that this clinic has never been supplied with such a large number of equipment since its founding in 1982.

With the arrival of new equipment, we will no longer need to send patients outside our clinic, because most of the services both diagnostic and therapeutic will be performed in Oftalmology. This is a big day for our clinic and we thank the Ministry of Health and the SKKKUK for this” initiative, the director, Miftari, said.

In the absence of adequate equipment, during the year 2018 alone, the Health Insurance Fund has paid about 1m euros for requests from the Ophthalmology Clinic outside public health institutions.

SKKUK Director Basri Sejdiu has said all these investments are being made in the continuation of improving conditions through public health institutions, aimed at providing better services to patients.

About 350,000 euros of equipment has been purchased for the ophthalmology Clinic, which has for the first time been supplied with an operating microscope for the operation of the rear segment of the eye, Cross-Linking for the treatment of eye correspondent pathologists, Optical Coherence Tomography, for diagnosing retinal diseases and many other devices.