Every Friday, Agimi, accompanied by his mother, takes the Vushtrri-Prishtina road to arrive at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo. He performs speech therapy sessions there, since these medical services are not offered in the municipality where he lives.

In KKUK there are only three speech therapists who treat children with speech problems. Meanwhile, in addition to Agimi, 71 other children receive services there.

They face a waiting list of up to a year.

The sessions are offered free of charge, but the mother of the 9-year-old considers that meeting Agimi - name decided by the editors - with the speech therapist only once a week is not enough.

Another problem is the waiting list, up to a year.

“[The son's problems are] only with speaking...We [travel] from Vushtrri....we have had him 3 times, but lately only once a week, we have him on Friday....Once in week is very little, but the children's requests are too many, they have no reason to cry without doing it once a week that my son is a year old, someone has never been", she says.

Such sessions are held more often than once a week in private clinics, but they are expensive.

As Agimi's mother says, from previous experience, the cost for a month goes up to 700 euros.

"There is a great need because I see here how many children are waiting here for years to come in, why not when we have educated people, complete school, complete college and stay at home... It depends on where you are yes, they are expensive... up to 30 sessions have been since I paid. Fortunately, I got here, I had to wait 5-6 months, but I'm having a great time, my son has been here for 1 year, which is very good.... Within a month, the cost is very high, 600-700 euros more they went to a speech therapist [in private clinics], go there and there and in the end I didn't get a result", she says in a confession for KosovaPress.

The acting head of the speech therapy service at KKUK, Zahide Uka-Rraci, confirms that currently children can receive this service from only 3 speech therapists.

She says that with the increase in demands, the need for increasing medical capacities and infrastructure has also increased.

Being the only address in Kosovo for all children who need speech therapy services, 480 services for a total of 72 children are offered at KKUK in one month.

But even this service in KKUK has a waiting list due to lack of medical capacities.

She emphasizes the need for a Speech Therapy Center which would operate within the KKUK.

The director of the University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Osman Hajdari, is optimistic that by the beginning of December this year, the speech therapy services will be centralized within the KKUK.

Meanwhile, the director of the non-governmental organization "Zë", Lekë Gjurgjiali, expresses his concern that children from different cities of Kosovo can receive speech therapy services only at KKUK - without having such opportunities in family medicine centers.

Kosovo does not have accurate data on the number of children with speech delays.

*Agimi is a name decided by the editors.