Tag: patient
Macedonia 22.08.23 | 21:23

Healthcare Ministry defends its ER team who stopped for a coffee while transporting a patient

The Healthcare Ministry came to the defense of its emergency response team from Struga, who were photographed drinking coffee at a gas station while transporting a patient, who later died. The incident caused outrage. But the Ministry says that the patient was not an urgent case, but a case of terminal...
Macedonia 27.12.21 | 09:22

Disaster narrowly avoided after a Covid patient lit up a cigarette next to his oxygen mask

ire broke out in a Covid ward in the Skopje Pulmonology Clinic today – a patient who was receiving supplemental oxygen took off his mask and lit up a cigarette, which caused the oxygen to burst in flames. The 33 year old man from Tetovo suffered light burns to the face and chest. Fortunately, the fire...
Macedonia 26.12.21 | 22:51

Disaster narrowly avoided after a Covid patient lit up a cigarette next to his oxygen mask

Fire broke out in a Covid ward in the Skopje Pulmonology Clinic today – a patient who was receiving supplemental oxygen took off his mask and lit up a cigarette, which caused the oxygen to burst in flames. The man suffered light burns to the face and chest. Fortunately, the fire was put out quickly...
Macedonia 30.11.21 | 12:31

Delcevo: Covid patient refused hospitalization, died during transport to Skopje

A 52 year old patient with Covid, who refused hospitalization, died while being transported from his native Delcevo to Skopje. The patient was adamant that he doesn’t want to be cared for in a hospital, even though he had severe pulmonary infection. A Delcevo ER team was eventually able to initiate...
Macedonia 31.08.21 | 17:24

Female corona patient who was filmed fleeing the Gostivar hospital has been discharged

A female coronavirus patient from Gostivar was discharged from the hospital after she was filmed fleeing through a window. Despite strict orders that patients must remain in their rooms, the patient kept walking through the corridors, and eventually popped out to a near-by bakery after being unsatisfied...
Macedonia 30.08.21 | 17:31

18-year old boy with cerebral palsy is the youngest Covid patient in critical condition

An 18 year old boy with cerebral palsy is the youngest patient fighting for his life from coronavirus infection. He is treated at the 8th of September hospital, whose director Hristijan Kostov warns that the number of young patients is growing and the speed with which condition of patients deteriorates...
Macedonia 04.12.20 | 14:42

Patient aged 27 died of the coronavirus

A patient aged only 27 died of the coronavirus in the Infectious Diseases Clinic in skopje, Mkd.mk reports. The news site says that Healthcare Ministry sources confirmed the death of the young patient. It is being reported that the patient was admitted in a very difficult state after being treated at...
Macedonia 01.12.20 | 13:41

Someone stole the wallet of a deceased Covid-19 patient in the Mother Teresa clinic in Skopje

Police is investigating the robbery of a deceased Covid-19 patient that was reported by his family. The patient, 72 year old D.K. from Skopje, died in the Mother Teresa complex in Skopje, and when the family claimed the body they realized that his wallet with money and personal documents, as well as...
Macedonia 17.10.20 | 12:36

Strumica patient given medical assistance outside the hospital doors

A video sent by a reader from Strumica to the news portals “Faktor” and “Hashtag” shows that health facilities are overwhelmed. According to his claims, it is about the Strumica hospital, which due to the overwhelmed capacities, can not accommodate all citizens, so some are given...
Macedonia 07.10.20 | 10:54

Corona patient fled a Skopje hospital, had to be tracked down by the police

Doctors from the “8th of September” hospital had to call police to track down a coronavirus patient who fled the hospital and was walking through Skopje. The patient from Kumanovo was reported missing from the hospital on Tuesday evening. It took the police four hours to locate him and bring...
Macedonia 05.08.20 | 18:39

Man from Stip who was considered cured tested positive to the coronavirus again

A man from Stip, who was once already diagnosed with the coronavirus and was considered clear, has contracted the virus again. The 46 year old man was first diagnosed a month and a half ago, but doctors have since declared him cured. This week he tested positive again. Epidemiologists are now trying...
Macedonia 01.08.20 | 15:58

Covid-19 kills young man from Bitola who survived leucemia as a child

A 27 year old man from Bitola, who succumbed to the coronavirus epidemic, had previously suffered from leucemia. The Healthcare Ministry issued a statement saying that the young patient was treated for leucemia as a child for over a decade, which left serious problems with his immune system. He contracted...
Macedonia 01.07.20 | 15:17

Charges and quarantine against the armed man who tried to take his mothers body from a Covid-19 clinic by force

The Interior Ministry said it is proposing charges against the man who tried to forcibly take the body of his mother, who died of Covid-19, from the “8th of September” hospital. The incident in Skopje’s hardest pressed coronavirus clinic shocked the public as the man came armed and...
Macedonia 04.04.20 | 11:20

Patient cured of coronavirus discharged from the Infectious Diseases Clinic after 17 days of treatment: I did not infect anyone!

A patient cured of coronavirus, who was discharged from the Infectious Diseases Clinic in Skopje on Wednesday after 17 days of treatment, told her story to “360 degrees” of how she got infected, what measures she took to protect her family, how she isolated herself after returning in the...
Macedonia 23.03.20 | 12:56

Family of deceased patient says she was treated badly in the Kumanovo hospital

The family of Gordana Dimkovska, the first patient to die from the coronavirus in Macedonia, said that the woman did not receive the necessary help, didn’t even get water when she asked for it, and were told that she died by the cleaning lady. We went to see her at 9 in the morning at the window...
Macedonia 23.03.20 | 11:47

Second victim of the coronavirus: 63 year old man from Debar died overnight

A 63 year old man from Debar has died after contracting the coronavirus. The man is the second patient to die of the epidemic in as many days. The Healthcare Ministry informed that the man was hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Clinic in Skopje since March 17, had no fever but had lung issues and...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 18:30

First coronavirus patient in Macedonia tests negative again

A test performed on the first diagnosed coronavirus patient in Macedonia has came out negative. This is the second time the 50 year old patient who was diagnosed after returning to Macedonia from a trip to Italy was diagnosed negative in a matter of days. It’s not clear whether her initial diagnosis...
Macedonia 27.09.19 | 15:12

Hospital manager says the latest incident was verbal, not physical assault

Hristijan Kostov, manager of the 8th of September hospital, denied the report that doctors were physically assaulted yesterday by the family of a deceased patient, insisting that it was merely a verbal incident. Kostov also insists that the doctors were not protesting in front of his office this morning,...

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