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Violation of ethics at Durrës Hospital: Publication of sensitive data to refute a news story!

2026-07-29 20:47:51Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Violation of ethics at Durrës Hospital: Publication of sensitive data to
Durres Hospital

The Durrës Regional Hospital reacted after several media reports that a citizen from Durrës, with the initials AA , 52 years old, had lost his life after being discharged from the hospital and left on the street.

According to doctors, the patient is alive, is in the Intensive Care Unit and has successfully undergone a second surgical intervention.

However, the refutation only affects the part of the reporting that related to the patient's death.

The event that led to the public denunciation – the fact that he was taken out of the hospital and left outside in serious condition – remains the crux of the matter and still requires explanations from the responsible institutions.

But in an attempt to refute the news of the patient's death, doctors at the Durrës Regional Hospital made public a series of data that belong to medical secrecy.

They discovered that AA is an HIV carrier , a heroin user, a methadone beneficiary, and even stated that he is suspected of having consumed heroin before returning to the hospital.

This is data that pertains exclusively to the relationship between the patient and the doctor. It was not necessary to prove that the patient was alive and cannot be used as an argument to refute a media report.

A patient, regardless of their health condition, addictions, or social conditions, cannot be turned into a means of institutional communication.

The doctor's obligation is to protect the patient's life and confidentiality, not to expose their medical history to respond to public criticism.

This is where the essential question arises: if, in order to refute a news story, a health institution publishes diagnoses, infectious diseases, and data on a patient's addictions, has the legal and ethical obligation to maintain medical confidentiality been respected?

This is not simply a communication problem, but an issue of patient rights and professional responsibility./ Vna


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