Former SKKKUK director talks about challenges with pandemic, admits there were errors in testing

Former Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service Director ( Sa SKUK), Basri Sejdiu is reporting to the Parliamentary Investigative Commission on Management the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said the first supplies from the Health Ministry had been received in April, which he stressed is by then operating on personal materials. Sejdiu said it has been a major challenge for the Hospital Service, adding that the MS has been informed of all contracts and how much supply, and that they have had numerous demands for supplies of spare material.

The one before the commission members said they did not make specific demands, nor did they buy morphine. In addition, he stressed that the MS by half of June has been responsible for the purchase.

“We have calculated that we should prepare early on the first case. We formed the committee. We've also developed priority clinics, and we've figured that it would be one of the challenges. Seeing the procurement procedures drag on, we've taken concrete steps. We made the order of the material from Tm3, tm2 on tm1”, he said.

According to Sejdiu, the first patient with COVID-19 has been treated with personal materials, because MSH support has come in about two months.

“The challenge was a supply of precious material. The use of contracts has been the greatest rescue... the creation of the digestive rooms, has also helped us save material. 800 nurses have been trained to wear those clothes. The biggest problem at the time was testing. It's been delayed for four days. The delay in results has caused the other staff to become infected. But even mistakes, one day have proved positive, the next negative”, he stressed.

He had criticism of the current leadership, since after his dismissal, he said he had begun mismanagement.

So said Commission member Labinote Demi-Murtezi.

“Do you think that the organization within the QKUK is properly, has advanced, or stored”, she asked.

According to Sejdiu, he said their plan was not to mix staff and patients with COVID.

The meeting of this commission has been suspended, in absentia.

There are only four deputies present as former SKKKUK director Basri Sejdiu is reporting. During the meeting they left the hall, MP Ekrem Hyseni, Fatmire Kolcaku-Mulja and Demi-Murtezi Labinos.

Parliamentary Investment Commission Deputy Chairman Bekim Haxhiu said that in absence, this meeting must be completed.

Haxhiu, who has led this report today, said the priority of some of the colleagues, alluding to those in LVV and LDK who have led together is something else.

” Thank you for the answers you gave us today. It seems to me that the priority of some of the colleagues is other than the management of the pandemic and abuses that have been suspected of being made. For me, there's too much doubt that their reporting is ignored. The truth and only the blind are interested in witnesses”, he stressed.