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In 2009 at QSUT, after several years of work, the Albanian team managed to perform the first kidney transplant.
The foundations for performing kidney transplants in Albania were laid in 2006, when the creation of infrastructure for performing transplants in our country began. Thanks to an investment of over 1 million euros, the hall was set up with all the parameters, the staff specialized and it was promised that the transplant would be a routine for QSUT with approximately 20 cases per year. Meanwhile on the waiting list were about 500 patients.
Paradoxically, the transplant room at QSUT, which was the latest technology, was locked. Currently kidney transplant is only offered by private hospitals. Certainly reimbursed by the state.
The well-known doctor Mustafa Xhani, who has led the urology service for many years, where the transplant room was located, was at the head of the team who specialized in transplants. It is still not clear why the transplants at QSUT were stopped.
“I went to the director who is now the Minister of Health and I told her that we have the capacity to make this intervention, maybe not 20 but 10-12 a year we could do it, but nothing,” said Dr. Mustafa Xhani, urologist
According to him, QSUT has all the infrastructure and capacities to carry out this delicate intervention, but it is all a matter of will. Here, doubts arise about the interests of private individuals.
“I still have a question mark why this intervention is not carried out at QSUT. The money has been thrown away, the staff has been trained “said Mustafa Xhani, urologist
Kidney transplant package is one of the most costly interventions currently performed only in private hospitals. This package is estimated to have a cost of 1.2 million new lek or 10 thousand euros for each intervention. While “acute rejection” which is another diagnosis has a cost of 500 thousand new lek. The Ministry of Health says that during 2021, 30 patients underwent this procedure at a cost of 36.7 million ALL. All this money has gone to private, because for unclear reasons the state can not provide it.
Ironically in 2019, while inspecting the new hemodialysis equipment at QSUT, Minister Ogerta Manastrilliu reiterated the promise of a kidney transplant at QSUT, but so far nothing has been done.
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