Kosovar died of COVID-19 in Skopje, but family was not subsidised

The legal representative of this family, Gent Gjini, says of KosovaPress, that the government scandal with COVID-19 subsidies is discriminatory for Kosovo citizens.

The injustice is that given the Government of Kosovo, it has divided the amount of 1500 euros, for family members who have lost their lives from the Cavid-19 virus, the scandal lies in that according to the administrative direction for the conditions and criteria issued by the Ministry of Finance, it is only for those who have lost their lives to the Devud 19 virus, within the state of Kosovo, but not even in the state of Northern Macedonia. And according to the criteria to take advantage of this subvention, the criteria for the presentation of the hospital by the state of Kosovo are valid. And in the concrete case for members of the victim's family, which now as a lawyer I represent, this benefit for subsidisation is not worth it, reasoning that the death certificate is issued by the state of Macedonia”, he says.

According to him, the absurdity in this case is that the paper for the diagnosis of the Cavid-19 virus was done by Prizren Hospital, and much more knowing that the same was the citizen of Kosovo, there has been the identification of the state of Kosovo, and that much more so the infection with the Devid-19 disease has taken it within the state of Kosovo.

Therefore, lawyer Djind says the case is about to be engaged in using legal mechanisms both civil indictment and criminal denouncing for violations of the criminal law for discrimination, for the equal failure of Kosovo citizens. He says the ombudsman institution will also be announced for violating basic human rights and freedoms.