Miserable conditions: Blood cancer patients are treated in improvised spaces at QKUK

At KKUK's Hematology Clinic, patients who are treated for blood cancer receive therapy in an improvised space that served as a student learning room.

From the beginning of COVID-19's pandemic, these patients face inappropriate conditions and often wait up to eight hours for the ministry.

Their number, according to personnel here, totals as many as 20 people who receive this therapy.

The place they get the therapy isn't right. The space is improvised because it is dedicated to the student learning room.

That's right. I've been sitting in the chair since morning until now, to get the therapy. And now I'm not going to be punished where we're going to get therapy, and now they're bringing me here”, says one patient.

In inappropriate conditions, patients and guides often wait up to eight hours. Patients from all over Kosovo go there. This service is offered only at CKUK.

Baster Murati regularly sends a family member there.

We come from Mitrovica. We wake up at five and a half to come in and take the seat. But if you don't come at seven o'clock you don't usually have a seat”, Murati says.

The director of the Hematology Clinic, Aferdita Ukimeriaj, says this is happening because of lack of space.

We've adopted a hall down to offer service even during this period of illness. Even in that room, chemotherapy has continued. Everything, unfortunately because of the lack of”,

QKUK is committed to finding a new space, but this space is located on the ground floor and lacking enlightenment.

On average, 100 persons a year are diagnosed with this disease.

A new clinic of hematoncology and nephrology is expected to be built within two years. /REL