When does construction of Pristina regional hospital begin?

Under the Law for the capital, adopted in 2017, Pristina is seen offering secondary health care services in addition to primary health care services, meaning building the capital's hospital.

The Health Director in the Pristina municipality, Izet Sadiku, has told Radio Kosovo of the current government in the capital is a priority for building the city's hospital. According to Sadik, the vehicles have already been separated, and this year, hospital construction will begin.

With the arrival of the new government of President Progress Rama, the priority has been the construction of the Pristina hospital, which has been the proposed institution in any campaign since 2000, and we, in fact, shared a property last year. And now we're in the second phase of making plans in the hospital detail. The Pristina municipality has also earmarked the budget of 1m and 300 thousand euros and I think that this year construction of the city's” hospital will begin, Sadiku said.

While the Oda of Kosovo Doctors does not see the construction of a new hospital necessary. Pleaments Sejdiu has told Radio Kosovo that there is no need for a regional hospital, but needs to separate the KKUK from the tercir and secondary-level services. According to him, the secondary section could perform the function of a regional hospital, which would cover municipalities from Podujevo to Drenas.

“For new buildings and new hospitals and new buildings I don't believe there is a need, so it only takes the political will for a co-ordination between the local and central level and to become a low cost where and it will be much more functional, because there is a system but one needs to be reformed” Sejdiu said.

Even Besim Kodra from the Association for Patients' Rights is against building the new hospital. He in a proposal for Radio Kosovo has said that if we start with the construction of new hospitals, more will have financial costs than will be effective.