Soon hospitals will not cope with the flow of patients

During the meeting of the Coronnavirus' pandemic management committee, Krasniqi has said that during the past three weeks alone, there has been a 66 percent increase in patients who have been hospitals. He has announced that there are currently 798 patients lying in regional clinics and those at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo.

If this trend of increase and hospitalization continues, the planned “capacity must be exceeded within March, he declared.

Krasniqi called on the Ministry of Health and Executive to make planning for increasing the number of beds and other capacities.

We find ourselves in the face of a situation where very soon our hospitals will not be able to cope with the flow of patients seeking hospital treatment”, he said, among other things.

Even incumbent Health Minister Andmend Zemaj has said that if he continues with hospital overload, there will be difficulty managing clinical cases.

“Mbiload currently in SKKKUK, in a short time, if it continues this way, will be unaffordable and health professionals will face difficult hospital management situations”, Zemaj has said.

Meanwhile, Kosovo National Institute of Public Health Director Naser Ramadani has said that in the past two weeks alone, there has been an increase in the number of new cases of 27.6 percent, adding that on average, in one day new and eight deaths have been reported.

We are going to a new normality, but this normality represents changing our behaviors for good, to maintain hygiene, distance of mask”, has ordered Ramadani.

On Friday, March 19th, Kosovo has registered the highest number of daily infections during 2021, 828 new cases, respectively.

Since registering the first Corleone cases in Kosovo, on March 13th of last year, health authorities have recorded 80,621 cases of infection.

Of them 1,744 patients have died.