In the first nine months of 2021, 35.108 deaths were registered in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which is an increase of 25.72 percent compared to the same period in 2020, reports Anadolu Agency (AA).
”If we look at 2020, the first pandemic year, then we can say that the number of all deaths in that year was about 15 percent higher than in pre-pandemic 2019. The number of deaths is increasing slightly every year, however, out of 44.427 deaths in 2020, about 4.440 were from coronaviruses,” said Mirsada Adembegovic, public relations advisor at the Agency for Statistics of BiH.
Men – 2.829, women – 1.609
Among the deaths from the effects of coronavirus in 2020, the majority are men – 2.829. Among the dead, there are 1.609 women.
”If we look at the first nine months of last year, then we can see that the number of deaths has generally increased much more than before, by about 26 percent. These are all dead people, for whatever reason. The number of dead has drastically increased,”Adembegovic explained.
Prim. Dr. Ednan Drljevic, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department of the General Hospital Sarajevo, also spoke on the causes of mortality in BiH.
”According to the latest issue of the Economist, we are one of the countries with the highest mortality rates. We are certainly among the countries that have the highest death rate from covid. The reasons are multiple. The first and foremost reason is that we are the only country in the world that does not have a state-level health ministry. Not only do we not have a ministry of health but we do not have harmonized measures either. Why is it important to have a ministry of health? Well, because all the time we did not have any measures against neighboring countries, while other countries could not be entered in any way,” Drljevic stated.
There are no uniform measures and a framework of behavior
”On the other hand, covid is a very expensive disease that requires huge financial resources. We are not in that financial situation to be able to send it to the end. When you look at the mortality map in the world, specifically Europe, those countries where there is the most restrictive policy have the lowest mortality rate are, first of all, Germany, Austria, and France. And recently they have been joined by Portugal, Spain, and Italy, where there is the highest percentage of vaccinations. We can determine that vaccination and restrictive measures give the lowest mortality,” Drljevic added.
”And even now, the largest number of deaths is from the thirties to the forties. Unfortunately, we did not achieve the results we needed here either. We have a ‘hole’ left in vaccination at that age,” Drljevic concluded.
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