In addition to Avid-19, Kosovo now faces beatings

Infectious clinic, at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, has already made preparations in a section of the clinic to expect eventual patients with hemorrhagic fever.

Infectian Sali Ahmeti told Free Europe Radio that in spite of the situation created with the new coronary, which causes COVID-19, they are also available to patients with a stroke, since it is already the season when epidemic outbreaks occur.

COVID-19 will make it difficult to manage bleeding fevers, (cases) expected events. However we have begun to keep this in mind that we take precautions to manage these cases. Since COVID-19 started, we've been dealing mainly with this disease, and we haven't had cases of being bit by ticks that have sought help at the CKUK Infectious Clinic, but there's a lot of bites in other areas. Considering that every two to three years there are epidemic outbreaks of bleeding fever, now is the time when the growth of the ticks begins and we will certainly have”, Ahmeti said.

The season when the cases of being bitten by the ticks that cause bleeding fever are shown is from April and May, and continues later in June, July and August.

The environmental problem that Kosovo has faced for years, with tick bites and bleeding fevers, according to health professionals, has already suffered a sharp decline year-on-year.

In bleeding fever during 2013 alone, 11 people have died and were bitten by 5,,200 citizens. This was the year when the maximum biters and those who died were reached.

Then, with the measures the relevant institutions have undertaken, the intensity of the sting has dropped over the years.

The vascular areas of the official fever are: Malishava, Kline, Rahoveci, Suhareka, and less affected are Gjakova and Prizren.

In the Ministry of Health, spokesman Faik Hoti told Radio Free Europe, that the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo is conveying the epidemiological situation with a hemorrhagic fever, despite what they're already dealing with even the COVID-19 pandemic.

The “will also be carefully conveyed this year, although at the same time we have the development of COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, there have been few cases identified with bleeding fever, although there have been bites. What is more positive is that the death toll from bleeding fever has dropped to zero since 2013, so there have been no cases of deaths from this disease in Kosovo”, Hoti said.

Hoti said people have already been trained, through municipalities, in co-operation with the Kosovo National Public Health Institute, the Veterina and Food Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and other institutions, to do overall disinfectation as well as selectively, at the time that the show of the ticks begins, and that this is happening. /rel/