Serbia sends 75 more doctors and 200 nurses to Kosovo
The Serbian government has decided to send additional medical workers to the Serbian enclaves of Kosovo due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases.
Serbian media reported this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Thus (by sending 75 doctors and 200 nurses - ed.) we will strengthen our three main medical centers in Kosovska Mitrovica, Gracanica and Gnjilane,” commented the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Serbia), Marko Djuric, on the decision of the Serbian government. “The health care system in all ten Serb-majority municipalities of Kosovo is well and efficiently organized, using the same algorithms and treatment methods as in the health centers in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis.”
Marko Djuric
Djuric also noted that at the moment the system for combating coronavirus in Kosovo enclaves is working well, but it is very important that medicines and medical equipment are promptly delivered from other territories of Serbia to Kosovo. And it was possible to no less quickly deliver the most complex patients to the medical centers of Belgrade, Nis and other Serbian cities.
“In addition, we are trying to cooperate with everyone, including the temporary institutions of Pristina (as the separatist authorities in Kosovo are called in Serbia - ed.), - emphasized the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. – I personally called on Goran Rakic and representatives of the Serbian List to establish contact with Albanians in the fight against the pandemic, because this virus does not know ethnic and other differences. Belgrade has played a leading role in the province’s fight against coronavirus, which is why many Albanians have confidence in the Serbian healthcare system in Kosovo.”
press conference of the Crisis Headquarters in Kosovo (North) Mitrovica
According to Marko Djuric, “the situation in the Serbian communities is stable, there are brave and disciplined people who have been accustomed to living in an emergency situation for the last 20 years.”
Also, according to the Serbian official, more than a thousand young volunteers from Serbia have volunteered to help their compatriots in the Serb communities of Kosovo.
According to the latest information from the Kosovo (North) Mitrovica Crisis Headquarters, two more cases of coronavirus have been reported in Serbian communities in Kosovo over the past 51 hours. Thus, the total number of cases in the Serbian enclaves of Kosovo is XNUMX people.
Serbia is sending another 75 doctors and 200 nurses to Kosovo.