The young man with cancer dies at the Oncologist, he was not given the medicine for chemotherapy! Father: They didn't even give me the prescription to buy it myself

A month ago, Mifit Balla lost his 39-year-old son Bujar from a serious stomach illness. Mifiti, originally from Librazhdi but living in Tirana for years, accuses the Oncology hospital at QSUT for the loss of his son, that the lack of medication during the treatment took his son.

"He was doing chemotherapy, he did the X-rays, the tests turned out well. Scanner still good. I brought them here, they are fine, when they are fine, why this? They take you by the neck. Came on the 31st Sunday to the hospital, on the 1st I finish. He died in the hospital on the 4th floor. We took him to the emergency room and he died here."

Bujari had been suffering from stomach cancer for about a year and a half, for which he had started chemotherapy. His father Mifiti, in tears and in pain, says that he brought his son to the Oncology Department on July 3rd to have the next session of chemotherapy, but the cure was not given to him because, according to him, the doctors told him that the chemotherapy cannot continue due to lack of the drug Irinotecan.

"He underwent chemotherapy treatment, it was cut on July 3 and he had 3 more to do, then he would have a check-up. It was very good with its own legs came. Irinotecan, the medicine that was missing".

The unfortunate father raised a concern about the lack of medicines to the Directorate of Health and the Ministry of Health, but his complaint fell on deaf ears.

"I went and complained to the directorate, even to the ministry, I went there. Give me the prescription, I said, no medicine, no medicine. No medication at all. Then they did them with 24, after it fell. From that day on the 3rd, he got up, went there on foot, and the lady doctor told him there is no medicine. Oboboo said, go, and didn't get up again. There was medicine in bread".

The lack of medicines in Oncology was a well-known phenomenon for Mifit, but unlike other times this time, doctors were more sparing in giving prescriptions or orders to direct you to private pharmacies, this after the outbreak of the Oncology scandal.

With July 3, they were blocked after that of Oncology. Give me the prescription to get it as I got it once again with Lek myself there. This time they didn't want to, they told me to write the name of the medicine yourself, not with her hand. Irinotecan, the missing drug. I even wrote the name of the medicine myself, and I found it here in Tirana, he wanted the prescription to take it. The pharmacist didn't give it to me without a prescription, she said she doesn't know how many milligrams are needed."

The loss of his son has burdened the old man immeasurably, while the pawn that he did not do enough to keep his son alive, with the state institutions that abandoned him, says that it will haunt him until he himself closes his eyes.

"Only this cry, he had made these last 3, then God himself had it in his hands. It's very good, I cry from these. Let SPAK follow. That they will take on others". / Albania