Why is health care in the Balkans deadly?
Neglect of the region’s health care systems is costing lives.
|2021.04.02
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Healthcare systems were unable to quickly compensate their long-term underinvestment in their laboratories and personnel.
For every 100,000 residents, Montenegro registered more Covid-19 cases than any other country in the Western Balkans or in the EU.
Confronted with such bleak reality and pressured by their citizens, governments in the region finally understood they have to look for other ways.
With the current pace of vaccination, except for Serbia, no country can realistically hope this year to reach a 60 to 90 percent vaccination rate this year.
Adnan Ćerimagić
Adnan Ćerimagić is a Senior Analyst at a Berlin-based think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI) where he is researching the Western Balkans and EU policy toward the region.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.