It is about 213 Kosovo Roma refugees who have been stuck in the system for 20 years. Among them is the seriously ill Jasmina Shakiri, who traverses the Golgotha through the labyrinths of Macedonian health.
One of them is the Musli Shaqiri family who have a recognized refugee status. After his wife fell ill, they have been through the Golgotha in recent months, going door-to-door through the labyrinths of health
Jasmina Shakiri, Musli's wife, is suffering from lung cancer and is in very bad health.
She, her husband Musli and eight children have been living in the state as refugees from Kosovo for 20 years. Their children have been married, mixed with Macedonian nationals, but none of them have ever acquired Macedonian citizenship.
Although they are entitled to health care like all citizens, in practice they encounter many problems. They say that for months they have no health insurance due to certain obstacles in the system.
Jasmina says she pays co-payments like all patients, though treatment for the disease is free. This fiscal bill shows that the severely ill woman paid 3,700 denars in order to obtain a biopsy result.
For the Institute of Pathology it did not matter that she is from a socially vulnerable category and lives with state aid of 3,500 denars. For comparison, the co-payment for a similar examination is 150 denars.
This family is just one of many who have been facing problems for 20 years, and their integration into the system is becoming impossible. While on paper they have the same rights as other citizens, in practice they say that many nebulizers do.
The severely ill Jasmina needs treatment, regular pain treatment that they are currently struggling to get. Health insurance and the provision of good and regular health care are a priority and one of the essential problems in the series that plagues Kosovo refugees, who have been stuck at the bottom for 20 years.
