Oncology patient letters that REDUCE the MISERABILITY of our hospitals and medicine

2023-08-03 10:47:11Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA INA KASIMATI

Oncology patient letters that REDUCE the MISERABILITY of our hospitals and

Ina Kasimati

I am sorry to say, but in Albania we are hundreds of years away from the medicine we want.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years ago, I did the surgery at the oncology hospital at QSTU. I was operated on (me and many patients) on a three-legged bed and they removed all my lymphnodules because that's how the apparatus was.

Then the head of therapy, Dr. Dhurata, did not give me the therapy according to the protocol and only when I went to Italy for a visit, I learned this. When I returned and told Dr. Dhurata, she showed me the list of patients who had been waiting for several months to take Zoladex. I wrote then to the general director Mr. Joti. No answer.

I wrote to the Minister, Mrs. Manastirliu. No answer. Then a friend suggested I write to the Prime Minister. It seemed absurd to me, but I did it. And for half an hour, the director of the hospital wrote me an SMS (to wash his mouth) Mrs. Kasimati, you took the medicine at the hospital's pharmacy... (funny) I objected and wrote to him that I didn't take the medicine and I didn't even know where the hospital pharmacy was. After a few days they called me and I was put on the list for the medicine. After three years (that is, last year) when my illness recurred and the call for it was made public helped me financially to go abroad and hundreds of Albanians started to support me, the minister called me Mrs. Manastirliu and asked about my health.

I told him I want to go to a hospital outside, since the oncology hospital for me had turned into a horror from the entrance door where the police and the coordinator pushed you and the small oncologist's room, which I went to every three months and ironically after covid were two doctors, who simply filled out the card and left to do the therapy. No bed in the room, no stethoscope, no privacy to communicate with the doctor, at the door you had to wait in line..., I don't know if you went to the oncology hospital, on the floor the first where photos from touristic Albania are placed with a caption in English of a pharmaceutical company; Do now, what the patient needs next"

There was also a photo from a church in Voskopoja where there was a grave in the yard.... When I saw it I was horrified. I took a picture. I sent it to the director, I also posted it on my Facebook page and then it was removed.. .

Before I left for France, thanks to the support of the Albanians, and not the state, I was waiting for the biopsy response, but I didn't get it because there were no kits in the hospital... Meanwhile, in those hospital corridors, I met worried family members of the patients there. for lack of drugs, chemotherapy... Not to mention the scanner that remains as a rare thing to be done and not as a routine procedure to follow you in the course of medical treatment, or tests, drugs.... the patient who pays the health insurance does not have to write to the director, the minister, the prime minister.... It's a shame! In which country of Europe does this happen? The health service should be a normality if you are treated/operated in the public hospital and if it is not done there, the health insurance scene takes over the payment support for the patient. ...


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