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Patients with tumor diseases at the Oncology Hospital at the University Hospital of Tirana are facing inhumane conditions and outdated medical methods that directly endanger their lives.
Journalist Osman Stafa said that chemotherapy treatment is carried out in a primitive manner, leaving patients in chairs for hours and using techniques that the developed world has abandoned for decades.
One of the most blatant problems raised is the lack of the "port-a-cath" device, which serves to protect patients' veins during chemotherapy.
According to Staff, the hospital still uses the intravenous method, which, as has been scientifically proven, causes calcification of the veins and renders them useless, leading the patient to fatality. This happens while the modern solution, the port that is placed in the main vein, eliminates this risk and facilitates treatment.
In addition, there is a lack of electric syringes (infusion pumps), essential equipment for the accurate administration of chemotherapy. Treatments that should last for a set time, such as 6 or 8 hours, in Oncology are administered "by eye" by nursing staff, opening standard serums without any guarantee of the accuracy of duration and dose. Patients are forced to sit for hours in chairs, in a situation that is described as unbearable and dangerous.
The staff emphasizes that this alarming situation, including the frightening shortages of medications, has been documented for at least six years and has been confirmed by a report by the Supreme State Audit Office (SSA), which speaks of a scandal.
"For at least the last six years, I have documented with facts and evidence the frightening shortages of medicines. There is also a report by the Albanian Supreme Audit Institution that documents a major scandal. I don't know of any other European country where people would be so indifferent; they would have reacted strongly, and there would even be political responsibility, because the solution is political.
I show footage of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in a chair, like in the 90s or 2000s, without a port-a-cath, which helps a lot in getting chemotherapy properly.
At the QSUT, chemotherapy is given intravenously. But the venous routes cause calcification of the veins and make them unusable, which means that the patient is headed for fatality.
In the world, they have invented the port-a-cath, which is placed in the main vein in the chest and the patient receives chemotherapy correctly. They have also invented electric syringes that ensure that chemotherapy is given for the exact time of the protocol, which can be 2, 5, 6, 8 or 10 hours.
In our hospital, patients sit for hours in chairs with standard IVs, which they open and monitor visually, without the proper equipment. This is very difficult for them and unacceptable.
"I have photos published on Facebook that show this situation. In no other country, not even in third countries, would this be accepted," he told "Syri TV."
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