13.5% of Albanians lack the financial resources to meet their basic health needs, like getting regular checkups or other physical examinations, due to high-priced services, tests, and treatments.<\/p>\n
In northern Albania, the situation is even more difficult, as 21% of the population living there, is not able to afford basic health examinations.<\/p>\n
The data was published by EUROSTAT, which ranked our country first in terms of patients’ inability to get treatment.<\/p>\n
Putting these percentages into the real world means there\u2019s a total of 380 thousand residents in Albania, that declare they\u2019re unable to or lack the resources, to get medical checkups.<\/p>\n
The study also found that the situation worsened in 2019, compared to previous years:<\/p>\n
2017 \u2013 12.5% of the population<\/p>\n
2019 \u2013 13.5% of the population<\/p>\n
Even in those cases, where the list of medication is reimbursed, other hurdles and bureaucracies present themselves and in most cases, they make it nearly impossible for patients to get a hold of their much-needed treatments.<\/p>\n
In the region, Kosovo is ranked second, followed by Montenegro.<\/p>\n
The COVID-19 pandemic has also served to bring out the previously not-so-obvious inequalities that are present in EU member states.<\/p>\n
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