SARAJEVO: KCUS AND MEDICAL FACULTY SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT – CITIZENS WILL WAIT LESS FOR PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS

SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 3 (ONASA) – At the initiative of the Ministry of Health of the Sarajevo Canton, the Clinical Center and the Faculty of Medicine UNSA signed a Cooperation Agreement, under which the Faculty of Medicine, through its Pathology Institute, will provide assistance so that citizens can wait as little as possible for pathohistological findings.
The initiative was launched on the basis of a significantly increased number of requests for pathohistological findings, which overloaded the capacities of the Clinical Center, where analyzes are performed for citizens from the KS area as well as co-founding cantons.
According to the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Amine Valjevac, the Faculty of Medicine will make its capacities fully available, so that the necessary findings can be delivered to the citizens as soon as possible.
“Given the importance of timely diagnostics, we were happy to respond to the Ministry’s initiative. The Faculty of Medicine recently acquired numerous diagnostic devices and modernized the capacities of the Institute of Pathology with which we can respond to this request of the citizens and the Ministry. We have good cooperation with the Clinical Center, and with activities like this we will contribute to the provision of better quality and more efficient provision of health services in the field of pathohistology,” said Valjevac.
Sabina Prevljak, acting deputy general director of KCUS, pointed out that this institution is happy to accept the initiative of the Ministry of Health of KS, and that this is a positive example where through the joint activities of several institutions, we can do a lot to improve the quality of health services.
“Unfortunately, statistical data show that the number of patients with various types of malignancy is increasing, both in the world and in our country. Timely and adequate diagnosis is the basis from which we start treatment, and dictates the course and most often the outcome of treatment. The clinical center is always at the disposal of our citizens with all available capacities. Sometimes our capacities are not sufficient to meet an extremely large number of requests, and any help and support in this sense is of great importance findings, which will make it easier for them in their daily fears and struggles,” said Prevljak.
The signing of this important Agreement was also attended by the Minister of Health of KS, Enis Hasanović, who said that the challenges facing the health system of KS are very demanding, but that the Ministry is working hard to overcome the accumulated problems.
“With today’s signing of the Agreement, we will not solve all the problems, but we will largely relieve the KCUS and significantly reduce the long waiting lists for pathohistological analyses.
With the joint and synchronized work of all health care institutions, we can make enormous progress, to the benefit of all citizens. The Ministry is dedicatedly working on connecting health care institutions and finding the most effective solutions. We can solve a large number of problems exclusively together, because each health institution has a role without which the system simply cannot function. We strive to use all available capacities in the best possible way,” said Minister Hasanović.