Health infrastructure has undergone a major transformation over the past years, thanks to a series of investments in the health system across the country. Highlighting the health system’s development at a conversation with the Korca citizens, Prime Minister Edi Rama also dwelled upon the system’s management and well-management of the new systems.

“It may sound irrelevant, yet it is something we have it today and we lacked it in the past. A model maternity hospital, which was inexistent in the past, is now operational in Korça. The old maternity facility has been now transformed into a construction site to build the new tourism development centre. An incredible progress and transformation has taken place compared to seven years ago in terms of the health infrastructure. From the point of view of health system’s management, we now have the conditions to take this leap forward, because in the conditions when we lacked infrastructure and anything else, except doctors and their passion, who provided health care and saved lives while working in absolutely unimaginable conditions, today we have a system that is again like those reconstruction structures that have yet to complete,” the Premier said.

Commenting on the new regional hospital project already under construction in the city of Fier, PM Rama noted that “the tremendous added value the regional hospital in Fier is precisely the know-how transfer. The work to construct the new regional hospital has started, but what is most important to me is that the hospital will not be a well-equipped building that will be handed over to us from the first day, but it will be a well-equipped building and also a management staff and a medical management staff from Turkey, who will serve for a period of transition, to transfer the know-how to us, both in terms of management and the processes concerning direct health care. Know-how is the main problem we face and absorbing such knowledge in such ways, as it is the case with the Fier regional hospital, is part of what we are seeking to increasingly accomplish with as many partners as possible. We will introduce Ecole42 in one of the new residential neighbourhoods in Tirana, a new era school with completely different curricula and teaching methods. So, through such choices and through such instruments that bring new energy and open new avenues within the systems, I believe we can make up for the gaps in a timely manner.”