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Medicine for export and health for import

2026-08-11 09:44:25Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
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This is a special humorous situation of ours. A paradox that only Albania knows how to produce so beautifully.

We have been going to Italy for years. For work, for pleasure, for health problems. We go there and leave our wool on construction sites, in restaurants, in hotels, in agriculture, in care for the elderly. Even, when we get sick, we go to leave our wool in Italian hospital clinics. We leave our wool both in a financial sense and in a chemical-medical sense.

Meanwhile, Italians have started coming to us to raise wool.

And not just Italians.

Albania has become a kind of medical tourism supermarket for years. We transplant hair, fix teeth, do aesthetic procedures. Private clinics are full of foreigners who come to receive medical services cheaper, faster and, in many cases, with a satisfactory standard. On the streets of Tirana you see many Italians with bandaged heads after transplanting.

So, on the one hand, we have a medicine that is increasingly serving the world.

On the other hand, the Albanian continues to take the plane to go to Italy, Turkey, Greece or Germany when the work gets serious.

Here the paradox begins.

Because statistically you can't say that Albanian medicine has failed. On the contrary. If foreigners come here to have their hair transplanted and their teeth fixed, it means that we have doctors, clinics, equipment, investments, and a functioning market and service.

The question is different: why do we have medicine for Italian hair, but Albanians go to Italy when they need cancer treatment?

Why do we know how to transplant hair, but not always guarantee the treatment of serious diseases and more?

Why do we know how to give a foreigner a perfect smile, while an Albanian has to travel abroad for a treatment that could save his life?

Of course, this is not just a matter of doctors. It is a matter of the system, investments, technology, organization, financing, and priorities.

Well, if we take the seriousness out of our thoughts a little, the appearance from the outside is comical.

We go to Italy to save our teeth and our lives. Italians come to Albania to fix their teeth and their hair.

We leave fur there.

They grow wool here.

The trade balance is up and down...

And this confronts us with a question that is more than a joke.

Because if a health system is good enough to attract foreign patients, it must be able to provide the same assurance to its own patients.

Otherwise, we have achieved a strange model: medicine for export and health for import.

We plant our hair here.

We fix our teeth here.

But when it comes to life, we head West.

And so, after all this history, I don't know whether to call it a success, a failure, medical tourism, or a paradox.

Sell ??and sell fur.

Wool work means…


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