Family members are forced to supply coronavirus - affected drugs to KKUK

Although it is considered that these families are cases of contact with those infected with coronarys, and according to the guidelines of the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo would have to be self-aware, the opposite is happening.

Family patients, before or after the visit of patients who do so on a daily basis are driving the streets of Pristina, whether in medicine, marketing, or even in restaurants around clinics.

The patient's family with COVIED-19, Sazie Baraliu every second or third day, visits his husband within the infectious clinic, where he is being treated. She does these visits because she has to buy drugs that she is required to treat her husband.

I have my friend here for ten days at the Infectious Clinic. Not every day, but every two days I've come. I brought her clothes, but I had to buy pills like cough needles, but other medications. But, yes, I must also serve that there is no one else”, she said.

Health professionals within clinics say that there is a shortage of drugs at times. This is because patients with COVIED-19, who are being treated within the CKUK, have other accompanying diseases and therefore use certain drugs that within clinics do not happen to have.

In the Infectious Clinic, infected psychologist Sali Ahmeti told Radio Free Europe that drugs on the essential list are available, but also drugs that are already treating patients with COVID-19 are owned by most of them at the clinic. But he adds that there is a temporary shortage of certain drugs and that they are left without them to their next supply in two or three days.

Sometimes, some medicine, because of the accompanying diseases, patients have to buy it, but mostly the essential drugs we have at the clinic. It happens one day, two, to be late because we sometimes have to change drugs for health causes, depending on clinical illness. But, I don't believe family members come to visit because of the purchase of drugs, Ahmeti said.

Valbon Krasniqi, task leader of the University Clinical Hospital Service, said in no way does the defiling of family members of patients who are positive with COVID-19. Despite this, he admits that a lack of drugs may occur from time to time but that there are other ways that the patient can get to drugs.

But Krasniqi adds that family members have consistently insisted and found ways to enter the rooms of persons infected with coronarys.

“As for the arrival of family members to clinics where they have positive COVID family members, we have also requested the assistance of the Kosovo Police. Regarding the lack of certain drugs, they are usually chronic or social drugs that can be introduced from time to time. Even so, family members can bring and nurses get them. Patients may be lying there in the first few days, and they don't take drugs with them. However, there is no reason for defiling patients in clinics where patients treat COVID-19”, Krasniqi said.

Meanwhile, Faik Hoti spokesperson at the Ministry of Health, indicated that in terms of supporting therapy that patients have been treated with COVID-19, the supply has been almost always stable. For other medications, certain accompanying diseases are not available in the clinic.

The case of clinical management is regulated by the World Health Organization protocol and the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. So it's forbidden to visit patients with COVID-19. There are also citizens in Kosovo who sacrifice to be close to their families, but as long as we have SHSKUK management and clinics where there are patients lying are making it impossible to avoid the contact of family members of people who are positive with COVID-19. Although the drug supply is stable and stable, any eventual shortages must be made safely. Not the family member getting inside”, he said.

But, Rukije Mehmeti, director of the Pulmology Clinic within KKUK, says family members of people affected with COVID-19 are constantly accompanying the sick within the rooms where they are being treated.

This is a reasoning that they should buy your medicine and go inside. True, she sometimes needs medication, but the nurse comes out and picks them up. However, family members themselves offend us, push us, and violently want to come in. Now we've been looking for reinforcements from the police, and no family members dare enter. Actually, they're in the rooms, they're out together. We through security are getting them out, but they're finding a way and they're going back to”, Mehmet said.

By 16 July, 5,472 cases of Corleone have been recorded in Kosovo. Of them, 124 people have died and 2,640 patients have recovered.