PDK MP Sala Jashari said that by 2021 patients in Kosovo face lack of essential drugs.

We have initiated this intervention following numerous citizens’ complaints about the absence of drugs, especially those used in treating cancer. We want to send a clear message, health care, drug insurance, and improved conditions should be a real budget priority, not just promises on paper. Citizens have rights, institutions have obligations, she said from the Kosovo Assembly Speaker.

Jashar said that if a patient in the country is forced to fight to provide medical therapy, then it is without state responsibility.

We have to work and engage that no cancer patient wakes up in the morning with worry about whether he will have the therapy. No family should be forced to enter debt, sell property, or seek help from others to secure a bar that the state owes to it. Because when a citizen is forced to fight to provide the therapy he needs for his life then it’s about state responsibility, she said.

Four months, Mr. Minister, four months without a container that can help with cancer therapy. It could only be a delayed tender for you, but for that woman there were four months waiting for a shepherd, while the disease does not wait. The problem of lack of drugs has not started this month, it has been repeating itself for years. Since 2021 you have a lack of essential drugs, and problems are going on year after year, she said.

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