Ministry accuses Albanian doctor of cover

Ministry accuses Albanian doctor of cover-up
Beta - August 20, 2003

BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Serbian Health Ministry has today said that Bujar Vrela, surgeon of the Pec Hospital, was guilty of a serious violation of medical ethics and fundamental human rights.

On Friday, the Society of Physicians of Serbia accused Vrela of deliberately misdiagnosing the injuries of two children following Wednesday's attack on Serb teenagers near Pec.

The Society claimed that Vrela attempted to disguise the fact that one of the wounded children had been shot by putting a plaster cast on him.

According to today's ministry statement, wounded Serb children Djordje Ugrinovic and Dragana Srbljaka were not hospitalised, despite needing to be. The ministry also accuse Vrela of misdiagnosing the injuries in order to cover-up the real cause of the injuries.

The ministry said: "This way we want to inform the international professional public and to warn of the unequal status of the Serbs in Kosovo in tending to the ill and wounded by Albanian medical workers".

Wrong diagnosis of ethnic Albanian doctors for Serb children wounded in Gorazdevac
Tanjug - August 20, 2003

19:27 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Serbian Ministry of Health department for Kosovo-Metohija Zdravko Vitosevic presented Wednesday to the press evidence on the treatment Serb children Dragan Srbljak and Djordje Ugenovic, wounded in the terrorst attack in Gorazdevac, received at the Pec hospital, and said the documents were addressed to the World Health Organization.

Vitosevic accused Pec hospital surgeon Bujar Vrela of concealing a crime by pursposefully making a wrong diagnosis of fractures, instead of gunshot wounds.