Patients in Serb enclave in Kosovo at risk
The local hospital in Gracanica has warned that it has not been able to receive phone calls from patients for the last five days.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This came with the disabling of phone networks in Serb areas of the province, south of the Ibar River.
After the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Pristina moved to dismantle Telekom and Telenor base stations that provide phone service to the Serb community, the health center in the enclave immediately bought two new phone lines from another local mobile operator and activated the numbers.
The public was informed of the changes, but patients are not able to call because their phones do not work.
The health center has begun making house visits to check on chronic patients and because of this alarming situation is once again calling on those responsible for disabling the phone networks to stop endangering people's health, health center Director Radmila Trajkovic said.
In the meantime, the southern Kosovo municipality of Strpce once again has access to the Telekom Srbija mobile phone networks, according to local officials.
Municipal President working within the system of the Serbian government, Zvonko Mihajlovic, said that the mobile signal was restored on Monday night at about 21:30 CET, but was not able to elaborate on how the network was allowed to go up again.
