Sa SKUK aims to monitor doctors with internal inspectors

Kosovo Hospital Clinical and University Service Director Elvir Aszi, in an interview for Online Economics, has said that in the continuation of the change that will take place in the health system in the country, there will be the creation of a division that will deal with the quality of health services.

Asia has said that with this change, it is intended to reduce the number of patients referred to by regional hospitals to KKUK.

The director of KSKUK has said that from visits to regional hospitals, a low efficiency in providing health services there has been observed, so it is urgent that interventions in this system are considered.

We are now in the statute, which is currently on a judicial treaty. In the new statute, a department for health issues in which there is a division on the quality of health services, for monitoring the quality of health services. This unit, in addition to dealing with the drafting of standard operational procedures and different algorithms on how a health service should be performed, will also deal with monitoring these services or quality. How these services are offered. That means, if I can make a parallel like the Kosovo Police with the Police Inspector. So we will also have an internal inspector who will oversee in what way health services are offered within our institution”, Asia said.

From day one, I'm aware of such a problem, it's not a secret. Even in its work, the SSKKUK Board during its visits to regional hospitals has noticed a low efficiency in providing health services there. So as duty from both the Board and the Board, we as Management have decided to face this problem, so we have recorded many services that we could distribute throughout Kosovo, so that they can also be offered (services) closer to the regions where they live but on the other side to lower the pressure from QKUK”, he said further.

Asia has also mentioned the establishment of state-run or guaranteed service lists. That, according to him, means that both QKUK and general regional hospitals should have a list of services that are guaranteed to offer the population of that region or the KKUK.

This means that unfortunately in Kosovo we still have no health insurance, so all public health sector financing is done through the government grant. This means that all the work of both health staff and health support is based on a government grant that has been provided to provide a number of certain health services. Now we're currently at the conclusion of the list of guaranteed services, for which patients and health professionals will all have transparently which service should be given in our institutions, which not”, says Asia, as it mentions a very high-cost service such as the “radiation. Gamma Knife”, a method that treats brain tumors without a need for surgery.

There are many services that are not provided. Right now we have a problem that's not major but it's very expensive service, which is radiation. Gamma Kniffeı (Mede that handles cancerless brain tumors), for which we have enough request from Neurodrosis but also from Oncology, is a device costing 3m and a half euros, and the number of patients is not so large that the rent is loaded. Therefore, such services will continue because we cannot fully specialise the Centrals of the Republic of Kosovo for all services. Even in the West, there are specialised centers in each country for different interventions, but our intentions are to increase the range of services we offer in the CKUK and also in regional hospitals”, Asia said.