COVIDD-19 is not yet ready, QKUUK clinics filled with infected

A special hospital for these patients is necessary at this time when the numbers of the infected are growing daily, they say at the QKUK Infectious Clinic.

To find a solution to this, on September 20th, Minister of Health in the Government of Kosovo, Armend Zemaj, said that COVIID-1950 beds will be ready soon.

“We are preparing for each scenario. The next few days the Health Ministry will prepare for COVIED-1950, with 500 beds in Pristina”, wrote Minister Zemaj on his Facebook account among other things.

But this hospital with these beds that need clinics at QKUK is still not ready.

Free Europe Radio has attempted to receive an answer during Thursday from Minister Zemaj to know more than when this hospital will be ready, but he has not given any answers.

Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, confronting COVID-19 has described him as a war situation, following his visit to the Infectious Clinic Thursday, along with the Zemaj minister.

Hoti has sought to increase efficiency in providing services at QKUK and regional hospitals, with the aim of managing the second wave of pandemic as best.

“We are making maximum efforts together with medical staff to improve oxygen supply, adapt clinics to additional beds, engage all staff, doctors in various fields, to do team work to help patients”, Prime Minister Hoti said.

QKUK clinics filled with patients

In the past two weeks, the number of tests for COVID-19 have increased in Kosovo, and so has the number of infected and dead alike.

In most clinics at QKUK, it is working with full capacity and they are packed with patients. The same situation is in regional hospitals.

Infectian Salih Ahmeti tells Radio Free Europe that in recent weeks, they have not been able to accept to the Infectious Clinic all those patients who have needed hospitalization.

They have been sent to other clinics, such as Pulmology or even Sports Medicine.

In the last ten days, the number of patients that need to be hospitalized has increased. Mainly serious cases, cases that need to be observed and treated urgently. In the Infectious Clinic there are two weeks or ten days working with full capacity”, Ahmeti says.

Infectian Ahmeti says such a 500-bed hospital is necessary at this time, taking into account that as the winter season begins, the epidemiological situation will become even more difficult.

“is more than necessary and that hospital should be available to us as soon as possible. God's will is not to use it, but we must prepare for the most extreme cases of this epidemic. We need to have increased numbers of beds for persons who need hospitalization and especially those who need intensive care”, Ahmeti says.

What's COVID-19?

In order to increase capacity to cope best with the body of Coronavirus, the Ministry of Health and the Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service (SHSKUK) are aiming to get COVID-1950 ready.

According to Health Ministry officials, the emergency clinic object will be adapted to the needs of patients with COVIED-19, which causes the new coronary.

The hospital COVID-19) is meant to have 500 beds and will be largely looked at patients with COVID-19.

Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service Director Valbon Krasniqi's taskman, in an interview given Radio Free Europe on 22 October, has declared they are preparing the infrastructure at QKUK, to have as many beds available for patients with COVID-19.

Kosovo preparing for increased cases with COVID-19

Krasniqi had said that they are at the completion of the works on the Sports Medicine facility to establish additional beds, and that it is becoming the expansion of the oxygen network and the supply of oxygen equipment for all hospitals in Kosovo.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in March, the total number of infected people in Kosovo is 26,888. Of them, 784 patients have lost their lives and 16,685 have recovered, while there are 9,418 active cases.

On Thursday, the Kosovo government adopted new measures to curb the spread of the choreography, which will take effect Friday, at 6: 00 p.m.