“Shefqet Ndroqi” University Hospital has been equipped with a state-of-the-art scanner, which will shorten the time of providing the imaging service. The imaging capacities will be doubled in both the TUHC and the Pediatric Hospital, while 18 x-ray and ultrasound machines will be distributed throughout the country, as part of the 4.2 million euro investment in the fleet of high-tech medical equipment.

Prime Minister Rama together with the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Ogerta Manastirliu, visited the
“Shefqet Ndorqi” hospital to see first-hand the investments in imaging.

“In the radiology unit at the ‘Shefqet Ndroqi’ hospital, we have strengthened the imaging capacities. We are investing in 16 hospitals countrywide to strengthen imaging. We have also devised a strategy to manage the consequences of COVID, i.e. cases with prolonged COVID symptoms. A new scanner is added to the ‘Shefqet Ndroqi’ hospital, so cases are handled with two scanners, we will add a scanner to the Trauma Hospital by investing in state of the art technology and also to the Korça hospital by renovating the Pediatric hospital in Tirana,” – Minister Manastirliu said.

The two scanners that work in parallel at the “Shefqet Ndroqi” hospital reduce the waiting time of patients. Meanwhile, the new imaging equipment, thanks to the latest “software”, offers the possibility of identifying various diagnoses that were previously impossible to detect.

The doctors of this hospital express their satisfaction with the investments in equipment which now enable them to perform more detailed diagnostics in a shorter time.

Meanwhile, the modernization of the health service infrastructure continues uninterruptedly at all levels, starting from primary care centers to university hospitals, with the aim of increasing the quality of health service delivery for citizens.

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