"What do we care..."/ Citizens in the hospital are forced to buy their own medicines!

2026-05-07 21:38:00, Denoncim CNA

"What do we care..."/ Citizens in the hospital are forced to buy their

The case discussed today, May 7, in the investigative show "Stop" on TV Klan, concerns a problematic situation at the Këlcyra hospital where patients face a lack of basic medications and are forced to buy even the most necessary drugs themselves at the pharmacy.

During a visit to the hospital, a patient presents in a fainting state and the doctor decides to give him a 5% glucose, while at the same time requesting that the family members buy "Omeprazole" and "Ringer" from the pharmacy, as the hospital does not have them.

The doctor admits that the shortages are ongoing due to the limited budget, stating that the funds coming to the institution are insufficient for daily needs.

The nurse also confirms the lack of necessary preparations, while at the pharmacy it turns out that some of the medicines are not available.

This causes patients to return with privately purchased medications to receive treatment.

Staff express concern about the lack of supplies and the low budget, noting that the funds do not cover the annual needs of a health institution.

Also mentioned is the lack of vital medicines such as anti-vipera, which, according to staff, are expensive and often not used due to expiration, while emergency cases remain uncovered.

Episode 1: Hospital Visit

Citizen: How are you? Këlcyra Hospital?

Nurse: Yes, here!

Citizen: Is this the one here?

Nurse: Yes!

Nurse: Do you want to go upstairs to the doctor's?

Citizen: Whose doctor?

Nurse: On the second floor! Go up! There's a doctor there.

Citizen: What is her name?

Nurse: Doctor Erveheja!

Doctor: What did you have?

Citizen: This is like a dead situation.

Doctor: Come on! Come on! This boy is sick, Uncle Bako. Let's do a 5% glucose test, because it comes out very quickly. Yes, very well, it's 12 to 4. Now come on down, let's go down to those nurses so we can talk! I tell you, go to the pharmacy, get some "Omeprazole", because I don't have any down!

Citizen: Why don't you have any?

Doctor: No, the government has that many funds.

Citizen: Yes, I bought it myself, yes.

Doctor: Yes, can you?

Citizen: Yes, I want it, what can I do?

Doctor: I can send someone.

Citizen: Yes, what should I buy?

Doctor: "Omeprazole", "Ringer".

Doctor: He wants something like that.

Nurse: What?

Doctor: I want some "omeprazole", "Ringer's", if you have the means, so that you have them there, I can make them and then he can take them himself, I'll bring them to you.

Nurse: I don't have Ringer's.

Doctor: What about "Omeprazole"?

Nurse: Oof..!

Doctor: You need to do another 5% "Glucose"!

Nurse: Why didn't you put it in the prescription?

Citizen: Why did they leave you without medicine?

Doctor: Well, that's how it is, they don't bring funds, they bring very little. Let alone, because I feel so difficult with people, we face it, because not everyone understands. They think that we do it for money, that we do it for that... But what do we care, we have medicines, we have them for the people, we don't have what we want.

Doctor: You'll do one more thing, huh, because you have 5% "Glucose" there.

Nurse: No, no! You idiot! Send that friend away so you can stay and calm down a bit, because you're not in a good mood!

Citizen: Which pharmacy should I take them to?

Doctor: Right here, at the palaces!

Nurse: Wherever you want, there are two!

Doctor: To the girl!

Nurse: There's another one right down here, where the taxis are.

Episode 2: Buying medicine at the pharmacy

Citizen: What did that doctor write there?

Pharmacist: I don't have any glucose.

Citizen: Huh?

Pharmacist: There's none of the latter, "Upadril" and "Omeprazole" are there, "Glucose" is not there. What did you have?

Citizen: "Glucose", what is it?

Pharmacist: Serum, yes it has sugar.

Citizen: What about this other one?

Pharmacist: This is a mixture of "Ringer" and "Omeprazole."

Citizen: Is this sugar with minerals?

Pharmacist: Eh…

Citizen: Where can I find this "Glucose"?

Pharmacist: We don't use this anymore, I don't use it because I'm afraid of diabetes.

Citizen: Okay, we did the first two! What about this one, what's this for?

Pharmacist: This is for the stomach.

Episode 3: Returning to the hospital to receive treatment

Nurse: Go sit on the bed in this room, stay there!

Nurse: Come on!

Citizen: This arm here?

Nurse: Hey, whoever you want!

Citizen: You too, who suffer with these medications...

Nurse: What are we going to do?! It's always been here. Make a tight fist with your hand! Like this!

Citizen: This director here, call her useless, who are you?

Doctor: What can the desert do, it's not her fault. It's not her fault either. That's how they bring the budgets. They've made budgets of 700 thousand lek, 800 thousand lek. What can you buy all year round, brother? You tell me, that's 360 days. 360 days, you tell me, an ultracort costs 2500 lek. You know, how difficult it is with people, that they say, that they are made, but that's not true, but it's not their fault and we keep something like this, so that for example, when there's no pharmacist, that at night, where will you find it. How many times do we buy it for them ourselves.

Citizen: If you raise your voice, I'll ask you!

Doctor: What are you asking for?! They lied to them, they even gave them votes… Well, here they have cut, reduced, reduced the budgets and made…

Citizen: The hospital needs more medicine, the snake poisoned him, who knows, maybe a spider bit him...

Doctor: We were discussing about the anti-vipera, about the anti-vipera. Before, we used to get it for 300 thousand lek, now, when it leaves you, 700-800 thousand lek, tell me, what can you do. Here I got the anti-vipera 300-d, I didn't use it, it's gone, it's going to be thrown away, it's going to expire, then./ Tv klan