The patient, Qemal Isufaj, arrived in critical condition several days earlier and underwent treatment involving the stenting of the right carotid artery – a delicate procedure carried out for the first time in a public hospital in Albania, the Ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry praised the medical team’s professionalism and said the intervention marked a step forward for advanced care in the public health system.

“Quality service, advanced expertise and equal care for every citizen, wherever they live! Thank you to every patient who believes and relies on professionalism. Gratitude to every doctor and nurse who devotedly serves in every health facility across the country,” Health Ministry said.

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“For the first time at Memorial Hospital, a delicate procedure was successfully performed on a 64-year-old patient, who suffered from a critical stenosis of the right carotid artery, with a high risk of serious complications,” Koçiu emphasized.

The procedure, carried out by a multidisciplinary team, avoided serious complications and restored the patient’s health, Koçiu said.

In a video shared by Health Minister, the patient praised the surgeons for his rapid recovery, saying he was able to walk unaided within a day.

“This complex operation went smoothly and without complications. The patient is now doing very well and ready to return to his daily life,” the lead surgeon said.

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Addressing a meeting with hospital directors, Health Minister said that the new management approach is taking service at public hospitals to a whole new quality level, delivering timely and quality care to patients.

Health Minister underlined that expanding the hospital autonomy policy to many other hospitals until end of the year was a top priority.

According to her, implementation of the financial autonomy of the Memorial Hospital in the southern Albanian city of Fier is set to begin next year.

“Memorial Hospital will become the first hospital centre operating under full autonomy policy, clearing the way to a more independent and efficient health system,” Koçiu said.

She also informed that 14 more public hospitals will undergo the financial autonomy process within 2025, whereas six hospitals are already implementing this process.

Hospital autonomy will allow hospitals to establish self-management systems, provide more decision-making room for health personnel, further deepen meritocracy and improve health care quality and care delivery to patients.

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The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu said Wednesday that the range of diagnoses being treated in this hospital has been expanded significantly.

“The range of diagnoses being treated at the Fier Memorial Regional Hospital is expanding, where, thanks to the cooperation of the Turkish-Albanian medical teams, high-quality orthopedic surgical procedures of high complexity are guaranteed for the citizens in Albania’s south, with them no longer needing to travel to Tirana in order to receive treatment,” Health Minister said.

Manastirliu said that more than 100 orthopedic surgeries have been successfully performed at the Memorial Hospital.

The 150-bed Memorial Regional Hospital in Fier is an investment by the government of the Republic of Turkey and it offers tertiary care services to residents in entire southern Albania.

The hospital is being run under a joint Albanian-Turkish management team, working to develop the new model of the hospital autonomy in the public health sector.

The facility is spread on 5,000 sq m, including 3,000 sq m floor area. It includes emergency health services, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology and surgical services with a special surgery department, internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, orthopedics and trauma service as well as a infectious disease ward.

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The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu handed over the Managerial Autonomy Certificate to the Memorial Hospital, emphasizing that managerial autonomy is the first step towards financial autonomy.

“Today we are about to symbolically hand over the managerial autonomy certificate, which defines the scope of activity based on the hospital autonomy regulation as approved by the Council of Ministers, a document that contains all the elements due to be decentralized and transferred to the hospital itself, starting with human resources, administration, the autonomy to pick either medical or non-medical personnel in a bid to enhance performance and improve care service,” Manastirliu said.

Health Minister also said that three more hospitals, namely the University Hospital Centre in Tirana, the regional hospitals in Durres and Shkoder have already launched procedures on implementation of hospital autonomy in collaboration with teams of experts from Turkey.

Fier Memorial Hospital is the first public hospital to receive the Managerial Autonomy Certificate under a two-year term after fulfilling all the criteria defined in the Hospital Autonomy Regulation.

Last month, the Council of Ministers endorsed the Regulation on Hospital Autonomy, which paves the way for all public hospitals to initially apply for managerial autonomy after meeting a set of defined criteria.

Hospital autonomy provides public hospitals with the opportunity to have the appropriate legal and regulatory self-administration mechanisms from a managerial and financial point of view in a bid to boost competitiveness among public hospitals, but also make them competitive with the non-public hospitals, improve quality of care for citizens, management of human resources, as well as expand the range of care services offered in public hospitals, putting an end to the era of centralization of tertiary public health services in university hospitals only.

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The hospital director Rudina Degjoni on Wednesday provided an outline of the patient care and medical activities in the first three months at the hospital.

She told Albanian Telegraphic Agency that as many as 10 078 citizens, or 112 patients per hour have been provided health care at the new hospital.

“A total of 3504 outpatient services and 2990 imaging services were delivered 100% for free under a referral system in the first three months,” Degjoni told ATA.

She underlined that the new Regional Memorial Hospital in Fier offers health care services to over 550 000 residents in the country’s south.

The hospital will serve as excellence centre and it brings together a joint Albanian-Turkish medical personnel.

A total of 206 medical staff, 53 of whom from Turkey and 153 Albanian medical staff are currently working at the hospital.

With its construction complete in less than three months, the 150-bed Memorial Regional Hospital in Fier is an investment by the government of the Republic of Turkey and it offers tertiary care services to residents in entire southern Albania.

The hospital is being run under a joint Albanian-Turkish management team, working to develop the new model of the hospital autonomy in the public health sector.

The facility is spread on 5,000 sq m, including 3,000 sq m floor area. It includes emergency health services, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology and surgical services with a special surgery department, internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, orthopaedics and trauma service as well as a infectious disease department that houses a unit for COVID-19.

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“I am pleased we succeeded in introducing another care service at Fier Memorial Hospital as it has been the case in the past two months since the new hospital facility became operational, while a new haemodynamics lab is now operational also thanks to the cooperation with Turkish doctors and the hospital’s medical team, who have already moved to this hospital to provide a wide range of care services here,” Health Minister said.

She noted that a state-of-the-art equipment has been recently installed, the first of its kind to become operational at a public hospital centre.

“This is an equipment installed for the first time at a public hospital, to deliver a range of invasive procedures for cardiac and neurological diseases,” Manastirliu noted.

The head of the cardiology ward, Dr. Koray Demirtaz, said that installation of the equipment has helped to expand range of medical procedures performed at Fier Memorial Hospital.

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