Lack of drugs at the IVF or six months later, patients have initiated procedure.

Since the opening of this department at QKUK in December of the year we left behind, over a thousand couples have visited the Gynecology Clinic, in the IVF department respectively.

According to IVF head Leandri Bejtullahu, from December 2024 to the end of June, 1304 consultations have been made, with 349 reviews.

Couples from 25 to 55 have sought treatment in this department.

However, IVF services have age restrictions.

We've done it with its own cells until 42 years of age, we've given up to 45, if the patient against age is in good condition, over the age of 45 we can only test with donor cells means that even those patients won't be neglected, we won't do discrimination at the age of”, said IVF department chief.

But why it's been open for more than six months, IVF has not yet begun as a procedure.

“With the IVF as a procedure, we haven't started applying yet. At first, we are interested in identifying patients who meet the conditions to submit to the procedure based on medical, age criteria. The point is, we're late to obtain drugs. The Ministry of Health has come up with advertising, so it's not a secret, but some drugs haven't been able to secure themselves through the tender because there's not after the bidder. We're hoping that this case will soon be settled”, Bejtullahu told, Tv1, broadcast Periscope.

Kosovo Hospital Service in late March had cancelled the tender for the purchase of these drugs, which are on the list of essential drugs.

All this because no economic operator has offered in this bidding procedure.

Tv1 has also sent questions to KSKUK to determine whether the tender will be reopened, but the same have not returned.

But although the IVF is not being applied, the other job in this department is under way.

And we're developing this diagnostic procedure without a problem, since we've already consulted it, there's a reality of around 100 operations, which are camera operations, but they're also serving as diagnostics of reproductive organs in women”, he showed.

The services and drugs for assisted fertilization are free in the first two trials, while after them the price ranges from 600 to 700 euros. /Periscope