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"The exodus of doctors became massive"/ Berisha: Healthcare has degraded in the last 4 years.

2025-04-25 11:58:00, Politikë CNA

"The exodus of doctors became massive"/ Berisha: Healthcare has

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, held a conversation with medical students today. Berisha spoke extensively about issues related to healthcare.

Berisha said that in the last 4 years, healthcare has taken the most severe hits.

The chief democrat said that the state of healthcare today is reminiscent of the situation in the 1960s.

Berisha said that in the last 4 years, the exodus of doctors became massive.

Furthermore, also due to his profession as a doctor, Berisha continued an extensive discussion with medical students on health issues.  

"If we take healthcare, in my memory, healthcare today has a degradation in Albania that in many aspects is close to the 60s. In which ones specifically are you medical students? Today we have 4 times fewer doctors than the EU average.

In 2013 we had one doctor for 600 inhabitants, today we have one doctor for 1100 inhabitants. The EU has one doctor for 300-350 inhabitants. Here we are.

Everything reminds me of the '60s, when pediatricians first started appearing in districts where there were no pediatricians.

Healthcare has taken the hardest hit in the last 4 years. The exodus of doctors has become massive.

You are again people who have studied physiology, biochemistry, and chronic hunger has appeared in a very disturbing form.

Chronic hunger, you know, is hunger in which a person cannot meet the protein minimum, cannot meet the components for the functioning of their body, and then takes these from their own tissues.

An independent UNICEF study shows that 21 percent of families cannot feed their children more than 2 meals. 21 percent!

Pensioners, who number about 760 thousand, 57 percent of them receive a pension lower than 170 euros per month. But you understand yourself, pensioners are also the citizens with the greatest need for medicines.

Meanwhile, today prices in this country have increased faster and more than in any other country.

If you could find an apartment for rent for 150-200 euros in 2013, I mean, today you need 500-600 euros for the same area.

If before I got a kilo of bread for 400 lek, today I get 900-1000 lek.

Likewise meat and other products.

I am still focusing on this element because it is very important. Pensioners, who in 2013 received an average pension of 143 thousand lekë, if the government had respected and helped them cope with price increases, today they would have had a pension not of 170 thousand lekë, but of 390 thousand lekë.

"Now, imagine how these people, a third of the population today, cope with their lives only thanks to the alms that others give them," Berisha said./CNA

 

 





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