health

In Sickness, Ethnic Barriers in Kosovo Often Fall

In Kosovo, Serb doctors treat Albanians, and Albanian doctors treat Serbs, suggesting that mutual trust, after all, is not completely lost.

Staff Shortage Keeps Children’s Trauma Ward in Kosovo Empty

Lack of trained specialists means the trauma ward at UAE-funded children’s hospital, which opened over two years ago, is still not operating.

Fighting for Life: A Ukrainian Doctor’s Mercy Mission to Kosovo

Back in 2005, Ukrainian cardiologist Borys Todurov carried out emergency heart operations on children from post-war Kosovo. The invasion of Ukraine has caused his patients, now grown-up, to look back in gratitude.

Gap Between Debt and Surplus Fuels Suspicions of Health Fund Mismanagement

Health Insurance Fund’s reported budget surplus for last year, despite an overall 30 million euros debt, raises questions of budget mismanagement.

Nurses’ Assault of Elderly Woman in Care Centre Horrifies Kosovo

The beating of an elderly woman in a care home in Peja/Pec has shocked Kosovar society, while police have arrested three nurses.