“Into the heart of Covid”, images and stories from the Infectal Clinic

We've long heard of doctors' heroism, but we haven't seen their daily struggle. We've heard of patients in serious condition but haven't seen their struggle with life.

Kosova Prees brings exclusive images and confessions from within the Infectious Clinic, amid patient suffering and around doctors and nurses.

Before entering the Infective Clinic, our team must first take steps in appropriate clothing.

Doctors and nurses have already learned to wear clothes, masks, and shields for hours, but this becomes more difficult with the arrival of the hot summer days. However, this protects them from coronary infection.

Anxiety to invade the Infective corridors takes away only the thought of doctors and nurses who have been facing the invisible enemy for months.

As we enter the Infective, the eyes see oxygen canisters often needed for patients affected by COVID19, for whom the clinic's rooms are already their new, unwanted home from which they are looking forward to getting better.

In the B Department corridor where 22 patients affected by COVID19 in a total of 11 rooms were two nurses preparing therapy to provide patients who at any moment needed assistance.

For more than four months now, Gezim Morina, nurse at the Infectious Clinic, is preparing therapies for patients affected by COVID19. Although his health is under threat at every step, he continues his work without letup by helping patients.

For Morina, the beginning of confrontation with the enemy called COVIDD19 has been difficult and stressful, but over time he adopted.

The more days, weeks, and months spend, it becomes more difficult to make contact with family members less difficult.

We're now in the B Department of Infective Clinic. Here we have 22 patients who can fit in with 11 rooms, one room has two patients. In general, the situation is stable at the moment we have patients who need oxygen supply. At first it has been a more difficult time because it was the initial presence of the virus we didn't know what kind of virus or enemy we have to do, we didn't know how effective it is to protect with these clothes... the contact with family has been minimal because of the reduction of risk to spread infection has been a difficult time and it continues to be difficult because we don't have daily contact with family members, less than any two weeks or one time in the 11x>

Many volunteer doctors and nurses have also come to help patients and their colleagues at this clinic, where it is the focus of patients affected by coronarys.

One of them is the nurse of Dermatology Clinic, Elvis Scytheer, who says that despite the stress they have had in the country when the first cases of coronary appear, they have already been pitied with this situation, and are trying to get as many patients as necessary to provide them.

It's been stress at first. We're used to it now. It's not too much of a problem. We always feel very good, we can do our job”, this infection said.

At the Frequent Infectious Clinic, there are also times when patients ' conditions get worse and treatment is required in intensive departments.

One was on the day the Kosovo team stayed within the Infective Clinic for several hours.

Patients who had just been admitted to the A's department got worse, with greater haste doctors accompanied him to intensively.

For her particular situation, the director of the Infectious Clinic, Lindita Ayzaj-Berisha, who said such movements within this clinic are frequent.

The patient is accepted as a positive COVIED but with a decline in tourism that couldn't manage with a measure of oxygen so she had to be transferred to intensive treatment. This situation in our caregivers is very frequent, often movements within the clinic sometimes from intensive treatment to sports medicine, but now even in intensive medication”, says the director of the Infectious Clinic.

Ajazaj-Berisha says the number of patients at the Infectious Clinic is constantly changing. Intensive care is also necessary in other departments, not only in intensive care, since 60 percent of patients are oxygenized.

The burdened situation with COVID in the country and the hard work medical staff have to perform has slightly tired them, but the director of the Infectious Clinic says they continue to provide health assistance to all in need.

The number of patients at the clinic is treated at about 100, and we also have 60 percent of the intensive treatment they usually have with oxygen therapy and heavy condition that require constant intensive care in departments as well as intensive medicine... For health staff, it's hard work because it's a dynamic job, it's a job that you have to be active all the time, but we despite this fatigue, and despite all the effort we're close to patients we have to be close to patients and offer quality health assistance even in spite of fatigue”, said Ajvazi-Berisha.

The noises of equipment in each room where patients are located provide health signals for each person, one of which has already been released after three weeks of hospitalization and has already improved.

While counting on the days when he's leaving this clinic, this patient says that in the first few days he was in B ward of this clinic, he was helped to breathe from oxygen after the virus attacked his throat and lungs.

Despite his situation, he finds strength to deliver a message to all Kosovo citizens.

It's been three weeks. It was a little breathing, the appetite was missing, the slack, the throat cough... I need oxygen now, not... I believed that there was a virus... Respect the measures, don't take the job unless there is no virus, let them know there are and serious bajagi”, the patient said.

He never had trouble breathing before, but now he can hardly speak. This is the condition of another patient who's been staying for a week at the Infectious Clinic.

He says the temperature was the first sign he received that he was affected by the coronary.

I'm just out of voice... with sugar right now and voice... and I'm out of here for a week today. I had a fever as my first sign... I've never had a respiratory problem before, says this patient.

There is no virus at all, but after being touched by COVID19, this patient requires that as many other citizens take care of the danger as possible.

Assisted for breathing from oxygen supplies during these days, it is already troubled with temperature, fever, and body pain.

I've been very much at risk, I'm telling you right, I don't believe it exists (virus) but now I'm telling all the people that COVIED exists, it's something that maybe doesn't exist but exists. I'm fine now. I've been on oxygen for a week... I had fever, fever, body pain”, she stressed.

And someone has a message for a singer who denied the existence of the virus.

This is a lie. Now a lot of Mondays I've never been better than I've ever been before than this day I've been”, this patient says those words with difficulty.

In addition to patients and medical staff at the Infectious Clinic, Kosovo's team met patients' escorts. One of them who accompanied his wife says he's having to stay inside this hospital's premises while he's negative with COVID19. He says his mate's burdened condition is forcing him to stay there even though he is risking his health and the rest of his family.

I'm just hanging out with my friend. There's nobody else, but I have to get him some injections, even though there's everything here, but sometimes it's happening that there's no reason I should come... We're feeling really dangerous, and we're appealing so that they don't think it's true, many of it's true that I'm looking at facts here. I'm appealing to everyone, it's too dangerous. Many are pleased (with patient services) there is nowhere to go, controls are very good there is no”, he says.

Since the beginning of June, the number of people affected by COVIDD19 has marked increases, along with the number of people who have lost their lives. For the most part, those who lost their battle with COVID19 had other associated diseases.

Seeing the increase in cases, the treatment of coronary patients is taking place at the Pomology and Neurology Clinic, while the worst cases are being handled at the Sport Medicine Clinic.

With the treatment of these patients, regional hospitals, where this week the COVIID-19 pandemic management committee in Kosovo, in collaboration with the Government of Kosovo, decided to turn Vushtrri Hospital completely into hospital for patients with COVID-19.