Oncology scandal/ Alimehmeti, for CNA: Institutional reaction is needed, equal law for all

2024-06-28 11:07:00, Aktualitet CNA

Oncology scandal/ Alimehmeti, for CNA: Institutional reaction is needed, equal

Doctor Ilir Alimehmeti, source: CNA

The scandal at the Oncology hospital has shocked the entire public opinion.

Doctor Ilir Alimehmeti, in an interview for CNA TV, with journalist Fabjona Pasho, divides the scandal into 3 issues.

"The law must be equal for everyone, from the first to the last. In any case, the law must be applied, if it is violated, the court will take decisions against it. I see at least three issues within a kind of discussion and who sees them the three in one has its own rationale. We have some patients, who are directed from the public system to the private, generating benefits in the private system. We have another issue for hospital use, which is procured for use in hospitals, a part of which leaves the hospital to be sold in the private system. had the right conditions to be protected from this kind of radiation."

Another problem that Alimehmeti raises is the centralization of treatment only in the capital, which forces patients to go to health and not health to them.

Oncology Hospital, photo taken from Google

"The number of surgical consultations in the Oncology hospital is 70-75 per day. Plus about 49 more coming from the districts. Imagine what a figure this is. It has become a centralized system and everyone has to come to Tirana. Because of a centralization, in the hands of a few people only in Tirana, would have been monitoring, but this has not happened either. We think that decentralization is the right way and providing services closer to the citizens Let health go to the patient, not the patient to health".

According to Alimehmet, the whole problem belongs to the system, which does not guarantee the right conditions, both for patients and for doctors, while he suggests the ministry to set up a working group, since the administrative investigation is not the solution.

"But tomorrow, will the treatment improve? Will there be drugs? Will the equipment work tomorrow, if these were the problem? Will the cancer mortality decrease immediately, since it was the problem in two or three people? The problem is much more fundamental We spend 2.5% of GDP on the health budget, the lowest in Europe, even Kosovo surpasses us.

Doctor Ilir Alimehmeti, source: CNA

How many drugs are missing? Among the 13 medicines that KLSH has checked, they say that there were delays in the development of tenders and the supply of medicines from 12 to 34 days, contrary to the medical prescription. It means that the therapy scheme cannot be applied. But who makes the tenders, those doctors in the end? Do they make the last links in the chain, or are these things higher up? They are not there to say we didn't know. Because a kind of scheme has been created, as the prime minister used it "I didn't know what he was doing". Erion Veliaj used the same scheme with his directors. This minister is applying the same thing now. She could appear saying "I found such a situation, I'm going to set up a task force and with this task force we're going to move forward. It says we're going to do an administrative investigation. What do you mean we're going to do an administrative investigation? How are we going to This is the question people want to know. These are empty words. Let the relevant bodies do the investigations. It is not the duty of the Ministry of Health is to provide health care."

Alimehmeti calls for the implementation of the recommendations of the High State Control and the World Health Organization, which contain alarming data on the treatment of cancer in Albania./ CNA TV