The “Irfan Ljubijankić Cantonal Hospital” in Bihać is faced with the departure of doctors and medical workers every year, and the problem is also created by accumulated debts, as well as inadequate conditions in certain departments.
Department of surgery in Bihac hospital. Patients who have undergone surgery, regardless of whether it is minor or serious, are accommodated in patient rooms whose capacities are filled to the last bed. Because of all this, employees face problems at work every day.
Samir Muminovic, the head of the Department of Surgery; “You can imagine when two women, one opposite the other, lie in the same bed. Who doesn’t like that, often spends the whole night on a chair to be operated on tomorrow.”
Solving the problem of surgery will be one of the priorities in the coming period. That a better organization in this and other departments of the hospital is necessary, they also emphasize in the relevant ministry.
“There is a space that is free after the pandemic, and it is empty. It should be used. And the mass of other departments should be distributed. There is no logic for neurology to be where it is now, not to be located near radiology in order to provide more efficient diagnostic procedures,” Muris Halkic, the minister of health of Una Sana Canton, says.
Surgeries are performed mainly in emergency cases and in the case of patients with malignant diseases. Everyone else – waiting. Surgeon Hajrudin Halilović, on the other hand, sees the problem in the shortened time of operations.
“At one time it was explained by the heat, then the cold… This is not found anywhere. Such organization of time with reduced working hours does not exist in any clinic. It is active working time. The doctor should practically start working as soon as he arrives at the workplace,” Hajrudin Halilovic, the surgeon, adds.
“Of the three operating rooms, one is not in operation. Even if it were to be solved, they wonder who would work, because there are not enough anesthesiologists for the 12 surgeons in the department. And with this amount of work, I can’t function normally anyway,” he concludes.
