Minister of the Interior of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, has promised on Saturday that the members of the Kosovo Police will be treated with priority in the hospitals of Kosovo.

He made this statement, as he presented the achievement of an agreement between the Clinical and University Hospital Service of Kosovo (ShSKUK) and the Kosovo Police, for “qualified support for health checks” of police officials.

“Police officers and recruits will be treated with priority, including in the waiting lists at the Clinical University Hospital Service of Kosovo, i.e. in all Regional Hospitals of the Republic of Kosovo”, Sveçla said through a post on Facebook.

According to the minister, police personnel and recruits “will be offered priority and free medical, psychological and specialist services of the secondary and tertiary level at ShSKUK and in all Regional Hospitals”.

Sveçla has also mentioned that the agreement has given special importance to the health of female officers in the Kosovo Police, through specific controls.

Members of the Kosovo Police have neither health nor life insurance.