12 minutes agoInfectious clinic without HIV therapy/ AIDS
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)This is not the first time we have no therapy. Even years ago, this was because I have been infected for many years”, a HIV virus infected person with Radio Europe who is treated at the Infectious Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo says. There are more than ten days since [...]
This is not the first time we have no therapy. Even years ago, this was because I have been infected for many years”, a HIV virus infected person with Radio Europe who is treated at the Infectious Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo says.
There are more than ten days since this institution has no therapy that needs to be affected with infectious H. IV/ AIDS.
This is affecting our health, and it's affecting our mental state”, says the REL co- talker.
In Kosovo, currently, there are about 80 persons dependent on HIV/V therapy. AIDS. They receive therapy at the clinic without having to hospitalize.
Infectious clinics say that medical orders have been made over time in the central QKUK drug store, but that “those are missing”.
Kosovo Health Ministry, which is responsible for the drug supply, confirms for The REL is expected to arrive on Wednesday at Pristina airport then to become a follow-up and rescue.
What drugs are missing?
The head of the HIV Department within the Infectious Clinic, Murat Mehmeti, says there are at least two types of drugs missing and “not known when to make sure”.
There's more than ten days that we've been missing the Dolutengravi bar and, also, there's another combination of the Lopinavi/Ritonavir bar, which has expired and we can't give it to patients”, says Mehmeti.
Speaking of Radio Free Europe, he explains the consequences that may cause non-stop treatment:
“So, if you don't give it in order, if you stop taking these drugs” respectively.
Alban Gjonbalaj, leader of the Kosovo Association of Persons with HIV, says he has accepted several complaints about lack of medicine at the Infectious Clinic.
They're saying that they're in customs, but, to be honest, we don't care where the drugs are. We need them in clinic”, he says.
HIV damage the affected person's immune system, leaving him exposed to severe infections.
According to data from the Infectious Clinic, 14 new cases of HIV/ AIDS, while seven new cases have been recorded so far.
Most of the infected are men.
The first HIV/V case AIDS in Kosovo was presented in 1986, and since then about 50 people have lost their lives.
Kosovo ranks among countries with lower HIV/ AIDS.
