Ajet Fatia, 58 years old, has been performing dialysis services at Berat hospital for 14 years. Until a year ago, he could walk one leg with crutches, but today he is paralyzed and unable to move.
In addition to health problems, the difficult economic situation adds to the troubles for Ajeti, who lives with his wife and their daughter, who is divorced and has a child.
The fees are reimbursed only for public transport, 780 ALL ($80) per month. The doctor where he performs dialysis has given Ajet’s wife a recommendation for the Berat Regional Hospital where is requested that an ambulance be made available to Ajet along with the stretcher.
The lady came to the hospital on the recommendation of AKS Berat, but the director of the hospital told her that the number of ambulances is low for the many patients they had to cover. She can offer this service only once a month, while Ajeti does dialysis 3 times a week. His family has to spend 12,000 lek a week on taxis to take her to dialysis, and the Fiks Fare program also interviewed the neighbor who is their taxi driver, who helps his wife pick up the husband and get him into the taxi every time.
“There are times that I didn’t take him to do dialysis because we didn’t have enough money to pay for the taxi,” says Ajeti’s wife. “The only one who brings income to the house is the daughter and they don’t even have enough to feed themselves”, she adds.
Fiks Fare along with Ajeti’s wife go to the hospital where they meet the director Anila Kala who says did not know that the patient was paralyzed. So it is explained that there are only 10 ambulances for the whole district and it is impossible for one of them to be available only for Ayeti.
But Order No. 469 dated 30.08.2010 explains that the relevant hospital directorates, in cases of impossibility, must ensure transport by hospital vehicles from the place of residence to the dialysis center and vice versa. However, after this meeting and with the recognition of the request from AKS Berat, the director promised that she would take measures to resolve the situation.
Fiks Fare also addressed the Social Service in Berat Municipality, where the director Pirro Xheblati had no knowledge of the family’s situation, undertook the mobilization of a working group for the study of the case.
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