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QSUT closes 3 million euro kidney transplant room, moving service to Allajbe American Hospital

2025-12-13 11:37:05Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Klodian Allajbeu

It was 2009 when the first kidney transplant was performed in Albania on a 19-year-old girl, whose kidney was donated by her father.

This was a success for the Urology and Nephrology service at the University Hospital of Tirana, which was led at that time by the urologist Prof. Mustafa Xhani and the nephrologist Prof. Nestor Thereska, a success that was widely trumpeted. The history of kidney transplantation began in 2006 with an investment of almost 3 million euros from the Italian project “Intereg”. An operating room was built at the University Hospital of Tirana to perform the transplant with the latest technology of that time. Albanian urologists and nephrologists were trained and went to Italy, and in the first transplant they were assisted by renowned Italian professors.

At that time, it was promised that 20 transplants would be performed per year and there were 500 people on the waiting list. But in fact, 2 or 3 kidney transplants were performed and the room was locked. The transplants were performed, but no longer in the public urology and nephrology service, but in two non-public hospitals owned by businessman Klodian Allajbeu, who has been collecting billions of lek from Albanian taxpayers for years.

Sources for Top Channel indicate that the cost of a transplant in the two Allajbeu hospitals is 20-21 thousand euros. The same trusted sources say that for the year 2024 alone, 14 transplants were performed, 7 in the Hygeia hospital and 7 in the American hospital. With simple math, 280 thousand euros are calculated for 14 transplants, which have gone into one hand, into the coffers of businessman Klodian Allajbeu.

Meanwhile, in the QSUT, a room equipped with equipment and everything needed to perform a transplant continues to be non-functional without a concrete reason. Top Channel has addressed an official letter to the QSUT directorate to learn why kidney transplants are not performed in the public service? Until this response is returned, trusted sources of Top Channel say that the head of the Urology service does not undertake to perform them with the argument that the new staff has not been trained, since the team that performed them before is now retired.

But is this actually a reason, or is the scheme built to favor the businessman who harvests the health budget from all sides? Renowned surgeons say that a kidney transplant is a simple procedure, it simply requires willpower. There have even been attempts to restart it several times, but it is not known what is preventing the resumption of this procedure. Meanwhile, the state continues to pay millions of lek for Klodian Allajbeu's private hospitals. /Top Channel


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