Challenges and Problems Affecting the Development Emergency Medical Services in Kosovo.

• Main Authors: Basri Lenjani, Merima Šišić, Verica Mišanović, Kenan Ljuhar, Dardan Lenjani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery 2021-07-01
• Series: Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
• Subjects: Emergency clinic; patient; organized; challenged emergency medical; system referral; EMS
• Online Access: http://journal.astes.org.al/index.php/AJTES/article/view/245
• ISSN: 2521-8778; 2616-4922

Emergency medical service is organized as a separate field of health activities in order to provide uninterrupted emergency medical care for citizens who due to illness or injury have directly threatened the life, certain organs or certain parts of the body respectively cut the optimal time of occurrence of the emergency until the start of the final treatment process. Emergence clinic for 2020. Year ED over 100. 000-cases. The emergency health system doesn’t have a consolidated network and integrated emergency medical services.  Emergency health services in Europe are being challenged by changes in life dynamics, scientific advancements, which do increase the request to further improve the way of delivering emergency services. Health-system resilience can be defined as the capacity of health actors, institutions, and populations to prepare for and effectively respond to crises, to maintain core functions when a crisis hits, and—informed by lessons learned during the crisis to reorganize if conditions require it. Emergency clinic today at UCCK offers an area of 507m2, with 22 beds in the living room (1 bed per 100,000 population). Compliance with the law on emergency medical care, support, and improvement of EMS creating a special budget for EMS. EMS Independence (Decentralization). Budget, Management, accreditation, initiation of a project of systematization doctors of nurses in an integrated system. Regulation of administrative and legal infrastructure for EMS. The increase in salary (during holidays, weekends), shortening working hours for EMS, beneficial path (stress, risk, complexity, infections, first contact with the patient), the extension of annual leave. Functionalization of the Permanent National Center for Education EMS training, licensing, relicensing (medical staff) Quality control or EMS quality.