Curing birth defect newborns

10 children that are born each year with complicated heart problems will be treated at the biggest Pediatric Hospital in Italy, the Giannina Gaslini.

The Tirana University Hospital Center has 350 cases each year from all over Albania, while 250 others come from Kosovo.

According to an agreement signed with the Italian part, the TUHC will establish the Pediatric Hemodynamic center that will resolve a series of heart problems for newborns.

“We had no agreement for pediatric patients with heart defects, with any European hospital. This agreement will help us establishing the Hemodynamics center, which is currently used only for adults. This agreement is for all the children that have the need to be cured abroad. With the assitance of the Genova coleagues, we will realized the Hemodynamics Center in Albania, through which many patients will be cured without surgical interventions”, declared the pediatric surgeon Altin Rrushi.

Part of the agreement with the Italian hospital with the Albanian Deputy Health Minister, Bardh Spahia, is the treatment of some special cases of pediatric patients from Albania with a 30% price reduction at the Gaslini Institution.

“The costs for the Albanian government will be zero, and the other major importance of this agreement is that it will cover the number of patients that we cannot operate in Albania, because they demand a specialized intervention. Another important part of this agreement is the 30% price reduction of every service towards the Albanian citizens, even outside the 10 that will be treated at the Gaslini hospital each year”, declared the Deputy Health Minister, Bardh Spahia.