Kosovo expected to take place with another COVID hospital

As a result of the large number of Coronavirus infected over the past few weeks, responsible authorities are considering the possibility of creating another Covid hospital in the country. Similarly, as a measure of reorganization, the CKUK Special Adbulance is expected to soon turn into an OVID-19 ambulance, where all patients with symptoms of this virus will be treated.

Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service Director Valbon Krasniqi's task manager in an interview for Kosovo Press says this ambulance is already ready to provide services.

“Within space reorganization, we except the beds are meant to re-organize the so-called COVID ambulances are going to be located in the professional ambulance, it's on schedule and the teams working there are set up. Now patients when they get to the CKUK will have a single address where they're going to be run and not walk to clinics, and there's medical staff there, based on the evaluation criteria for patients who're going to need to lie in the hospital, will be able to lie down... Very soon within these days we will function this new service as organisation”, Krasniqi said.

Krasniqi says the situation with the coronary in the country is getting heavier every day. According to him of a total of 600 patients who are lying in QKUK clinics and regional hospitals, 400 of them are with oxygen therapy.

“The situation is getting heavier every day and we're in a very difficult situation with regard to creating new beds and performing additional health staff to treat, as well as clinical manifestations in patients are extremely serious. We have very serious health patients, over 400 patients from 600 who are lying at the University Centre, and regional hospitals over 400 of them are on oxygen therapy, and this speaks of an extremely heavily burdened situation”, said SHKSUK director's task officer.

And seeing the situation aggravated by USKKKUK Director Valbon Krasniqi's task leader, Valbon Krasniqi tells Kosovo that they are considering the possibilities of expanding spaces within the KKUK.

He even claims that the Ministry of Health and the government have examined the possibility of creating a COVID19 hospital outside QKUK in order to treat those affected by coronarys.

We currently have them in total that we have destined for patients with COVID about 750 beds at the level of Kosovo, so including the KKUK and regional hospitals depending on the increase in cases and needs of patients we have to create other areas and plan to expand these beds. But citizens should know that any new bed, any increase in the number of patients, puts the health system in great trouble because it's not just a bed-bed issue, but it needs additional staff commitment to deal with those cases, additional nurses, other logistical services to support services to these patients... We also have plans for QKUKU, we also plan for several regional hospitals to expand our capacities, we have the inter- block that we have here at the Clinical Center, and the government and the Health Ministry have discussed other options, whether to create a hospital outside KKUK to treat patients with COVID. But once for a time we're managing with our personal capacities that we have”, he stressed.

Neither have medical staff, even in the front line of the throne, escaped the wave of the infected.

Krasniqi says that from the beginning of the spread of pandemic in March this year to today over 700 medical personnel have been infected with COVID-19, and that most of them have already recovered and returned to office. “Capacity is extremely limited, and so does the large number of infected people. At the level of the country since the beginning of the pandemic are somewhere over 700 health personnel who have been infected, and most of them have already recovered and work has been restored”, he says.

With increased contact cases with COVID-19, QKUK has increased beds capacity. At the beginning of the pandemic, only the Infectious Clinic was used as the main center for treatment of the virus, but then patients were also admitted to Pulmology, Sports Medicine, Neurology Clinic, and then to the service of those affected by COVID-19 became available to regional hospitals, where the government - decision hospital became COVID-19.