A roundtable was held following the documentary “Business with Health”, broadcasted on Top Channel on March 16th 2022. This documentary was produced within the project funded by the European Union entitled “Enhance Journalism to make Accountability occur and Democracy Function!” (EJAD), implemented by Top Channel in partnership with the “Friedrich Ebert Stiftung” Foundation.
Representatives from state institutions, civil society together with journalists were part of the discussions that included the problematics that accompany Albanians and money they have to spend to be treated in hospitals abroad. Patients that struggle through the courts to claim services denied, even though having health packages approved, by producing compensation bills that burden them were the main topics of the discussions as well.
Participants called for the state institutions to have bilateral agreements with specialized hospitals function, eliminating long procedures and also by specializing local doctors to provide the expensive services would be a solution as well.
