TIRANA, June 22 /ATA/- By Maela Marini/ After successfully coping with the pandemic situation, “Shefqet Ndroqi” University Hospital in Tirana will expand its range of services thanks to an investment in the New Cardiovascular Surgery Ward, while the investment in the ultramodern laboratory, part of the public laboratories’ network, has already completed.
Prime Minister Edi Rama, accompanied by Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu visited on Tuesday the premises of the “Shefqet Ndroqi” hospital, where he saw first-hand this investment.
Minister Manastirliu stressed that “the University Hospital ‘Shefqet Ndroqi’ has returned to normality since two weeks now.” “We thank them for professional work and commitment during the most difficult 15 months due to COVID-19 infections,” she said.
Speaking about the new investment in this hospital, Manastirliu said that “despite the unprecedented period of the pandemic we have moved ahead with the investments to provide more services to citizens.”
This investment, she said, gives another direction to the hospital as it completes a very important cycle in terms of cardiovascular diseases, where in addition to the hemodynamics service invested several years ago, the cardiac surgery service now performs over 400 operations a year “, said the minister.
Minister Manastirliu emphasized that human resources is the most important, so as part of the initiative “Ready for Albania,” a cardiac surgeon will come from Germany. “He is getting ready to leave a clinic in Germany and join the staff of Shefqet Ndroqi Hospital,” said Manastirliu.
The investment amounts to 1 million euros, and as the doctors of this hospital said, “in September, the first operations will begin, while from January 2022, the hospital will be fully operational.
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