Teacher and activist Ina Kasimati passed away some time ago due to cancer.
But before she passed away, she published a letter of serious accusation about the situation in the Oncology Hospital.
Her letter has gone viral these days, when the Oncology Hospital scandal broke out.
INA KASIMATI – CHARGE (August 2023)
(Teacher Ina passed away on 23.03.2024)
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years ago, I had the operation at the Oncology Hospital at QSUT. I was operated on (me and many patients) on a three-legged bed and all my lymphnodules were removed 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 came back and told Dr.Dhurata, she showed me the list of patients who had been waiting for months to receive Zoladex. I then wrote to the General Director, Mr. Enkelejd Joti. No answer.
I wrote to the minister, Mrs. Manastirliu. No answer. Then a friend suggested me to write to the prime minister. It seemed absurd, 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 got the medicine at the hospital 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 (i.e. last year) when my illness recurred and the appeal was made public to help 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 policeman and the coordinator pushed you. While in the small oncologist’s room where I went every three months, ironically after Covid, there 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, waiting in line at the door…
I don’t know if you have been to the Oncology Hospital, on the first floor there are photos from touristic Albania with a caption in English of a pharmaceutical company: Do now, what the patient needs later.
There was also a photograph from a church in Voskopoja where there was a grave in the courtyard… When I saw it I was horrified. I took a picture of it. I sent it to the director, I also posted it on my FB page and then it was removed…
Before leaving 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 the hospital lacked kits…
Meanwhile, in those hospital corridors, I have met family members of the patients there, worried about the lack of medicines, chemotherapy… Not to mention the scanner that remains a rare thing to be done and not a routine procedure to follow you in the course of medical treatment or tests, medicines… A patient who pays for health insurance does not have to write to the director, the minister, the prime minister…
It’s a shame!
In which European country does this happen? Health care 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…
Why, after you become public and ask for help, does the minister call you and “wash the morals” that the state gave the help… I’m curious to know in the case of the actor Fuga what support the state has given him, when he is a health insurance payer? But Pr. Petrela what has he done concretely when he is a doctor in the public hospital and the best neurosurgeon?
