SCANDAL/ "How good it would be to be Albanian", the garbage in the emergency room of the QSUT

2026-01-30 12:32:00, Denoncim CNA

Photo from the QSUT emergency room

CNA has denounced another scandal, where the protagonists this time are not the institutions, but the citizens themselves.

In the areas surrounding the QSUT, at the entrances to the hospital buildings, and in the QSUT emergency room, the sight you encounter is cigarettes and plastic thrown everywhere.

Cigarettes and water bottles flying from the windows are the ugliest sight we can see in the premises of a University Hospital Center, where all of Albania, citizens from every city, head to receive services, perform surgeries, treatments, etc.

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An act of irresponsibility, almost criminal, committed by the very families of hospitalized patients, who lack even the minimum of ethics or awareness of environmental pollution.

"Ignorance" is frightening, as is the fact that they do not think that environmental pollution is a "bill" that is paid by man himself, with his health, by the acts of each of those who throw cigarettes in the corridors, stairs, or as in these photos that we will bring today.

This is a scandalous act that actually shows a lot about the irresponsibility of citizens. Where the sick receive treatment, are hospitalized, and stay for days, on the other side of the coin we have these images that further embarrass citizens and cause harm to human health.

We live in a country with people where the expression "how good it would be to be Albanian" only makes sense in stadiums, as seeing these images is a great shame that covers the people who commit these acts, as well as the entire society that does not react to such a phenomenon.

These images that CNA is bringing are an alarm bell, which more than a denunciation should serve as an awareness and message to stop environmental pollution, especially in the QSUT.

An investment of millions of euros, which is being reduced by the taxpayers themselves to a cigarette shelter. Look at these images which show shameful behavior, as if they are on the street, forgetting that there are sick people in the hospital, in serious condition, when in fact it is their own family members who are bringing the surrounding environment to a state like this.

Not to mention their accumulation in hospital corridors, where they become a potential danger to patients, as they can contaminate the sick with the virus, but that belongs to another article.

Let's return to the main problem that stems first from the individual, from the people themselves, the citizens who go to the emergency room to accompany their sick family members and commit such acts, who, first of all, should know that people are not animals, because as you see these cases, you realize that even dogs are more educated.

Look at the premises. Trash, cigarette butts, plastic cups scattered everywhere!

What is the fault of the sanitation workers for the actions of the people themselves? The fact that there are sanitation workers who take care of the cleanliness of the hospital premises does not mean that cigarettes, cups, or plastic bottles should be thrown in the corridors or around.

Why isn't the opposite done? For a citizen to pick up trash and throw it in the right place, but we have animalistic, disgusting behavior?

But we have sanitation workers who every day throw away mountains of cigarettes or plastic bottles from citizens who confuse the hospital with coffee, where after drinking the coffee or water, the worst case scenario is that they end up falling out of windows or being left on their ledges.

For this animalistic behavior, the individual is responsible. It should be in his education not to pollute the environment that surrounds him, much less the premises in hospitals. The first is the person himself who must have the ethics and morality not to throw away garbage, then the responsibility passes to the institutions.

It is painful and shameful that a place like QSUT, which should be shining, has been turned by such animalistic behavior into a place where you find people throwing trash out the window and bringing street culture./ CNA