Although the waiting list for services at the Radiology Clinic at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo (UCCK) has been reduced, patients are facing another difficulty. Except in urgent cases, other patients must buy contrast to perform a CT scan, a contrast is needed for better visualization of organs. The lack of this material started about three weeks ago and that the reasons are technical. This is what the director of the Radiology Clinic, Shkëndije Nuza, said in an interview for KosovaPress.

Until this week, this Clinic received a donation, some doses of contrast only for emergency cases.

She says that the procedures are being carried out to supply new contrast, but for technical reasons the pharmacies have been left without this contrast.

For KosovaPress, Nuza talks about the reduction of the waiting list, the lack of medical staff and the numbers of how many services have been performed within these nine months.

The head of Radiology Clinic points out that the waiting list for magnetic resonance is about one month, while that for CT is about three weeks. She adds that biopsies are performed within a week.

Director Shkëndije Nuza told KosovaPress that recently they are facing a shortage of medical staff, as some of them have retired and some have left their jobs.

Among other things, Nuza says that there are cases when patients come from Albania to perform services in Radiology Clinic.

At the very end, director Shkëndije Nuza said that until September of this year, over 11 thousand magnetic resonances and over 65 thousand X-rays were performed. She also mentioned that about 22,000 CT scans and over 1,200 mammograms were performed. /Z. Zeneli/