Kosovo has no virus study doctor

In the absence of virologists, the study of viruses in Kosovo has mainly taken over microbiologists, while fighting viruses ' infections has made it infected.

A specialized microbiologist can become a virologist after completing what is also called subspecialization.

A total of 45 microbiologists in Kosovo. Of them 14 work at the National Institute of Public Health, while others at institutions within regional hospitals in the country.

During the time of the coronary pandemic, which causes COVID-19, there has been a lack of virologists, says Lulu Raka, microbiologist.

In a proposal for Radio Free Europe it numbers factors that have influenced Kosovo not to have virologists.

“has not had an adequate cadrovik planning or financial support from state authorities for advancing the deficit capacities that Kosovo lacks. The outbreak of this epidemic showed us the role of public health field specialisation”, Raka said, explaining that it is not the National Institute of Public Health that can dictate the framework of advances in specific specializations.

In this context, he said that opportunities for these subservations in Kosovo are limited, primarily citing human and laboratory capacity shortages.

You should have the latest device technology, equipment and teach you someone who is virologist. Part of the subsidisation could also be accomplished in Kosovo, but that is not enough”.

The other “component is personal and comes from the doctors themselves. The extra time, from 4 to 5 years for subservation, has caused us today to have no substitute virology player, he said.

In the Ministry of Health, Faik Hoti said subservations in the field of virology have not been, because the doctors' primary interest in most cases has been specialization.

For a specific area such as virology, there must be capacities in the medical infrastructure, but also a subspecialised framework of that field, which would handle subscientist management”.

“In the Ministry of Health there has been no request for such subspecializations, perhaps even from the fact that individual initiatives of specialists for such a subspeciisation field” have been missing, says Hoti for Radio Free Europe.

For experts, the pandemic facing the entire world currently should be taken as alarm bells, for more serious public health investments. Mr. Raka on this level says that Kosovo's “state and all professional institutions should be reflected immediately by stimulating young doctors to take professional skills in these areas, including the subscientization segment in virology.

Unlike Kosovo, except for 45 microbiologists, there are also 40 infections, as well as 20 epidemiologists.