Serbs in central Kosovo face severe medicine shortages, Belgrade appeals to WHO
Serbia appealed to the World Health Organization to solve the problems with the transportation of medication and medical material to health care institutions in the Serbian areas of central Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, March 14, 2008
Serbia appealed to the World Health Organization to solve the problems with the transportation of medication and medical material to health care institutions in the Serbian areas of central Kosovo, in particular in Gracanica.
The director of the Gracanica hospital Rada Trajkovic said the medicine supplies were at their end and that her hospital was facing a "humanitarian catastrophe within 24 hours" if medicines do not arrive.
„What a part of the international community is doing in Kosovo goes beyond all aspects of humanity, and I hope the World Health Organization will react on the matter", Trajkovic said.
On March 3, the international police in Kosovo seized two trucks loaded with medicines and medical material intended for medical institutions in Serb enclaves in Kosovo.
Representatives of UNMIK customs have said that the seized drugs had to have a certificate of the Kosovo Drug Agency and documents that confirm that the medicines are in good order.
Meanwhile, in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serb workers in the municipal courts, broke off a police cordon and entered the building of the court.
The KPS and the Unmik police did not use force to prevent them.
Some 200 Serbs have been expelled from their jobs in the judiciary of Kosovska Mitrovica after 1999.
