The grin of Kosovo separatism: 20 Serbian doctors were not allowed to enter the region
The Albanian elite, which usurped power in the Serbian region of Kosovo and Metohija, has stopped playing at liberalism: in April, having allowed doctors from Serbia to work in the Serbian enclaves of the region, it is now trying to survive them without explanation.
This was reported by Balkan media, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Although Pristina allowed Serbian doctors and nurses to enter the region in early April due to rising COVID-19 cases in Serbian enclaves (Kosovo Serbs understandably distrust and tend to ignore the Albanian separatists' healthcare system), the Albanians' generosity did not last long.
The day before, a group of twenty doctors and nurses from Serbia, heading to the region to help their fellow tribesmen and their Albanian neighbors, were stopped at the Merdare border crossing on the pretext that they did not have permission to work in the region. Moreover, many of the Serbian doctors are natives of Kosovo, who have lived there for decades and left their native land against their own will.
“There is no clearer and more precise confirmation that chauvinism has been proclaimed in Pristina as a social value and that in the atmosphere of hatred systematically created by Pristina politicians there is no place for even the most basic considerations of humanity,” the Serbian Office for Human Rights responded to this incident in a special statement. Kosovo and Metohija. – A double crime has been committed against them (medics born in Kosovo – ed.), because after they were forced to seek refuge in central Serbia from wild Albanian chauvinism, they are now not allowed to carry out their humanitarian duties as they did until now, without making distinctions by religion or nation….
We demand the strictest attitude from the international community and its representatives on the ground against such inhumane and criminal practices!”
It should be noted that the incident that occurred is only one in a chain of similar ones that have occurred in Kosovo in recent days. In particular, I had to stand for three days at the same border crossing of an ambulance that was taking a cured patient from Belgrade to Orahovac. According to the driver, customs officers found fault with the Serbian license plates of his car, although they had never paid attention to them before, when he had previously entered the territory of the region and had all the accompanying documents in his hands.
Kosovo police also stopped an ambulance in the city of Pec with a female doctor and a nurse who were transporting a hemodialysis patient, again finding fault with the Serbian license plates. The doctors had to call another car to transport the patient and give explanations to the police for half an hour. After which the crew returned to the clinic in Gorazdevac, where they worked until now.
“I think we are all here to fight one common enemy - the coronavirus pandemic, which, although subsiding, still poses a big threat,” Dejan Pavicevich, the Serbian government spokesman in charge of relations with Pristina, commented on the situation. “Health workers are always ready to help, they never offend anyone, and we hope that such misunderstandings will be resolved and will not happen again.”
The Grin of Kosovo Separatism: 20 Serbian Doctors Denied Entry into the Region