Disturbing numbers: By the end of the year, 2,000 people may be affected by cancer

Oncology Clinic Director Ilir Kurtishi, in an interview for Online Economics, said that the number of cancer patients by the end of the year could affect approximately 2,000 people.

He says an extremely small number of patients presented and treated at this clinic are heading abroad in the inability to find adequate treatment in Kosovo.

By the end of the year, this number could reach the number of 2,000 young cancer patients in Kosovo. It's a very small number of patients sent abroad, and we've already referred to 3-4 cases, of which there are 2 or three who need to make a form of special radiation that doesn't take place anywhere else in the region like Gama Knife or Cyber Knife, and we've had a case that had to take a particular form of direct chemotherapy in the womb or in the liver and that means a minimum number that require and receive treatment outside of Kosovo”

He said that they are well equipped with herbs that they receive each week or three times a month as a clinic. A minimum number of missing drugs, according to him, are missing because of authorization-marketing.

And we're actually well supplied with medication in addition to 4-5 drugs that are indisposed because of authorisation-marketing and the first six months over 90% of the drugs that patients treat, we have them in the clinic and they get on a weekly basis or three weeks on the cycle and the treatment protocol of these diseases”.

Dr. Kurtishi said this departure of doctors was not evident at the Oncology Clinic, but planned to open positions for young specialists with the aim of opening new centres, EO reports.

“Oncologists are divided into two departments, and in the future we plan to open new specializations and have new staff, young specialists especially for those Kosovo centers that we plan and we've just started with these ambulance services, one day, one time in the month of our advance and open them up to and we're opening them at 151x>

Kurtishi said it is planned to continue progress in relation to the work at this clinic, including digitalisation of services to patients and improving infrastructure.

Each legislature has helped us to the maximum, since the nature of the disease is such. And in the last three to four years, we have completely modernised radio therapy service, and in September it will complete the change of the old machine and the replacement with modern, very new devices. And we're also recently supplied with new drugs, new drugs, smart drugs, and it's in a renovation procedure on Oncology Clinic. So by the end of the year we think that this procedure will be carried out and we will have better access to patients, we will have more beds and a more modern infrastructure normally and we will have a digitization of our clinic services that will make our daily work with patients easier. We're going to expand the space and the number of beds will increase, and we're going to be able to get patients at the same time, at the same time, twice as many as we can put them at the same time in getting these services, and this will normally facilitate our”. /EO