a minute agoPatients continue to face long waiting lists at KKUK
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Patients seeking services at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo continue to face long waiting lists. Some of the clinics have hundreds of thousands of patients waiting to conduct interventions or receive diagnostic services. Clinic leaders told Radio Kosovo that all these long lists [...]
Clinic leaders told Kosovo Radio that all these long waiting lists are due to lack of anesthesiologists.
Many patients in Kosovo are forced to wait for years on long waiting lists in the impossible to perform services within the time term when patients need it.
KKUK's waiting lists continue to head the Vascular Surgery Clinic.
The clinic's director, Hajriz Rudari, told Radio Kosovo that more than 1,500 patients are waiting in this facility to conduct the intervention of variable veins, while there are no waiting lists for other interventions, Rudari has said.
We don't have enough anesthesiologists at the moment and we can't speed up the waiting list, because we have other pathologies that are more of a priority than widow pathology, and that's why we have these for a second. If we had anesthesiologists, this ski list would have been, because surgeons have enough, only anesthesiologist” is missing, he said.
The chieftain list also has on the QKUK Sy Clinic. This confirms Mentor Gorani, a doctor who works at this clinic. He says that patients wait for months to operate eye curtains (cataract).
The waiting list with us exists for the operation of the cataract which is with a slightly larger number than 1153 cases. The waiting time is somewhere five to six months for this” operation, he said.
The monthly waiting list also lasts for patients in Toraque Surgery. So says clinic director Nazmi Kolgeci. It for Radio Kosovo says the waiting list has more to do with breast cancer biopsies.
The waiting list at Torakal Surgery is 10 months, about 500 people wait on the list, but most are biopsy, while breast cancer patients wait about a month. And the waiting list for lung cancer doesn't have, because these take the top of the”, Kolgeci said.
The waiting list for a magnetic resonance runs through December 2023 at the Radical Clinic. However, according to Radiology Clinic Director Shkqipije Nuza, the waiting lists are considered each month, and patients may be invited earlier.
The Children's Surgery Clinic enters the continuation of the waiting lists. There are over 300 children waiting to undergo various interventions, says clinic director Ardian Shefkiu.
