For 13 months now, waiting for magnetic resonance is a month and a half

The waiting list for patients needing magnetic resonance tests has been revised and cut in a month and a half from 13 months ago. So has declared for Online Economy, director of Radiology at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo (QKUK), Shknjeje Nuza.

She has said that as clinics are being confronted with old machines that have also had defects, which she says have now been arranged for me.

Nuza has said that for patients needing ultrasound tests, the waiting list is up to three weeks, while CT examinations, the waiting list is up to two weeks.

We need to be clear except for hospital patients, not one time, and tests with the bloodbath patients didn't even have a waiting list, we have an ultrasound waiting list somewhere within two to three weeks, because the demands are continuous and we have very large demands of primary medicine. The CT examinations, it is known that the Radiology Clinic works with three CT devices, three are pre-days, and two are 24 hours, one near the children's hospital, and the emergency CT working 24 hours, the CT waiting list is two weeks. The waiting list, if we're going to call it a waiting list compared with front - to - door waiting lists with magnetic resonances for cold cases, for the waiting occasion is the end of July. It's a month and a half, a waiting list for magnetic resonance examinations for cold cases. And for oncology cases like we've always mentioned before they're planned according to oncologist's demands, it means that if oncologist wants this done in two weeks, he'll be given space, if you ask for it in three months we have to create a new list, oncological patients' lists are planned lists. For emergencies you work 24 hours magnetic resonance”.

Nuza in this interview also showed the number of services this clinic has provided for the first five months of this year.

In the last five-month report, there's a large number of services that are performed by the daisy-radiography, a total of 32 thousand 460 patients, tests with CT have 13 thousand and 422 patients, magnetic resonance for five months there are 5 thousand and 734 patients, five-month mammography tests are 760 patients, ultrasound tests we have 10 thousand and 832 examinations that includes the turn of morning and custody. Eczaminations with CT angiograph are about 700 patients, intervent endovascular examinations are 38 patients, biopsy tests that include biopsy the non- vascular part that is 505 patients in five months, tests with tromectoma have been conducted in all six patients, and breast biopsy has been conducted 97 patients”, she said.

Radiology director has said how the clinic has old equipment, most of which have been adjusted, she has said that for the moment abroad they have CT, which is located near Neurology Clinic.

She added that soon this clinic will be added to another CT which is the donation of the American Embassy.

There are now, in view of some of the devices that are a little older but there have been defects for which most have been recorded, at the moment not functional, only we have the CT near Neurology Clinic, but I soon believe it will become a solution and the CT will come which is a donation from the American Embassy coming to the 911 building”, she said.

Nuza has stressed how clinics are not facing medical escape.