Visa patients fill QMFs, these are the most frequent symptoms

Health experts said that from the cases presented at the centre, it is actually just a species.

Family medicine specialist Dr. Florie Hyseni '% Morina, from the main Family Medicine Centre in Pristina, told Radio Free Europe, that most of the cases are of ordinary seasonal virosis.

The currents in us have slight symptoms, mainly from the upper respiratory lesion with a deadlock or nose, throat pain, coughing. But there are times that symptoms are a little bit more severe, with a high fever with the irritability of respiratory lesions and possibly pneumonia”, Hyseni-Morina said.

At the Main Centre of Family Medicine in Pristina during one day, about 200 citizens seek medical assistance, where according to professionals, about 50% of them have virosis problems.

In these cases we suspect ordinary virtues or seasonal virosis. There are approximately 200 species of viruses that cause common colds that produce symptoms. In the flu, however, symptoms are more severe. It is not ruled out even the possibility of cases with COVID-19, while the virus is still present and the symptoms are similar”, Hyseni said.

In the last week, the highest number of people infected with COVID-19, according to the Kosovo National Institute of Public Health (IKSHPK), in one day it was 18.

On January 10th, IKSHPK said that from the start of the season on October 3rd, 2022 to January 1, 2023, an estimated 24 thousand cases of flu-like disease have been reported at the National Institute of Public Health in Kosovo. Of this number, 3,406 cases were from acute respiratory infections and 67 cases with severe acute respiratory infections.

According to the Institute, during December 26th through January 1st, 1,871 cases of flulike disease have been reported.

From the National Institute of Public Health, they say the epidemic threshold to declare an epidemic is about 5,000 reported cases a week.

Epidemiologist Spring Kachanica ʹ Gunga, of the National Public Health Institute, explained to Radio Free Europe that the intensity of seasonal influence, according to the number presented, is in “the medium activity of the stream”.

Deputy Health Minister Arsim Berisha told Radio Free Europe that currently in Kosovo there is no influence.

“Based on everyday contacts with the QKMFs of all municipalities and IKSHPK, the number of visits to primary health care speaks of seasonal virosis”, Berisha said.

IK The KPS and doctors recommend wearing masks, physical distance and hand hygiene.

It is also recommended to avoid contact with sick individuals as possible, to reduce the number of family visits to hospital persons ( SHSKUK, regional hospitals, as well as to avoid closed and crowded countries.