Hospital in north warns of shortage of medical supplies

Kosovska Mitrovica Healthcare Center head Milan Ivanović said on Tuesday their surgical and blood transfusion program "was under threat."

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 14.05.2014.

09:17

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Hospital in north warns of shortage of medical supplies

He explained that the medicines included 150 bottles of albumin and blood transfusion reagents that are required for some types of blood analysis.

The value of the medicines is around RSD 1 million, and the customs agency said the value was EUR 8,800 and that the fine for that customs offense was EUR 2,800 and confiscation of the medications, he pointed out.

"We need medicines and a humanitarian crisis can very quickly turn into a humanitarian disaster, seeing as the confiscated albumin was to cover a month's supply, which threatens the entire surgical and blood transfusion programs," he said.

"I was informed by our authorities in Belgrade that it had been agreed in Brussels that the delivery of medicines, medical supplies and medical products in general would be conducted without difficulties, however Priština obviously does not follow that," Ivanović underscored.

The problem arose with the establishment of the Kosovo customs services on the administrative line between Kosovo and central Serbia, he stated, adding that the Kosovo institutions and customs agency were clearly trying make it impossible to treat Serbian patients.

Serbian government liaison officer Dejan Pavićević met with the heads of the Health Center in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday to discuss the issue.

He said he was in constant communication with international community officials and Priština, stressing that such incidents should not happen, because unobstructed medical supply had been agreed in Brussels.

Pavićević "wishes to believe that the incident was not planned, but an act by an individual, a misunderstanding, and that no one intends to threaten the health of an entire people," Tanjug reported.

"Unfortunately, there is often no will from the other side to follow the agreements made in Brussels or they are sometimes violated on purpose," he stated.

"However, there are instruments. We have the international community, the EU, which guarantees everything agreed in Brussels, so some things get resolved after our intervention," he said.

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