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Berisha: The healthcare system in Albania is in a catastrophic state, just like in third world countries

Politiko 2025-03-25 12:33:36

Berisha: The healthcare system in Albania is in a catastrophic state, just like

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, says that Albania ranks among third world countries when it comes to healthcare.

Berisha brings the denunciations and testimonies from the Oncology Hospital, which, as he puts it, is "a shelter where people do not die from diseases, but from the lack of medicines."

The leader of the Democrat Party also said that vital equipment at the oncology hospital has been out of service for three years.

Berisha : Albania, in relation to the health service that it guarantees to its citizens, is ranked among the third world countries.
It is ranked among the countries in which citizens pay the highest fine in Europe, but also one of the highest in the world for their health care, while Edi Rama, who 12 years ago came to power with the solemn promise of free health care, today deals with everything else, but not with the major failure with very serious consequences, hundreds of thousands of lives in health care.
Today, Albanians die from heart disease twice as often as the EU average.
The same figures are for malignant diseases.
Infant mortality in Albania is three times higher than in Montenegro and surrounding countries.
The truth is that Albania is faced with a supply of medicines of the poorest quality and most ineffective, most worthless.
I recall here that a law that guaranteed Albanians medicines of the same quality as EU member states, a law according to which medicines that were not marketed in at least two EU countries, i.e. approved by the European Medicines Agency, could not be marketed in Albania, this law disappeared and was replaced by the Nushi-Doshi law and today Albanians buy medicines in their pharmacies that are beyond all standards.
Large companies abandoned Albania.
Tragic testimonies have continuously come about the catastrophic situation in the Oncology Hospital.
This hospital, instead of being an institution of hope for the sick who heroically fight different forms of these diseases, is in fact a shelter where people do not die from the disease, but from the lack of medicines to cure diseases.
In this hospital, vital equipment has been left out of operation for three years.
In this hospital, other extremely important equipment has been left out of operation for years.
In this hospital, as has been reported, the sick are given medicines that are not suitable for the diseases they have. Or the same dose is divided into several doses because the drugs are massively lacking.
This situation is not only in the Oncology Hospital. Unfortunately, this situation is also in other public hospitals, where a patient who suffers a carotid thrombosis in the artery that feeds the brain can have the diagnosis done in a public hospital, but is forced to undergo treatment in a private hospital.
An inhumane relationship has been created between the public and private sectors to the detriment of the sick.
Laws have been passed in accordance with mafia interests and contrary to the interests of the health of citizens.
The health budget is 14 times lower than in Germany. But Germany is not a country with salaries 14 times higher than Albania.
It is a completely insufficient budget.
It is 2-3 times lower than in surrounding countries.