Unless the tax is removed, a huge drug problem will arise

Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar said that all patients who will be admitted to hospitals and health centers in Kosovo and Metohija will be assisted and receive medicine.

"It will be the same in the coming days, but if these taxes continue, it will be a serious problem, we will not be able to function," Loncar said in an interview with RTS Dnevnik.

He states that the state of Serbia will do its share of the work and will ensure that there is no disaster.

The minister criticized international organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières, who were worried about the lack of medicines for migrants crossing Serbia and who they said had not said anything about Serbs in Kosovo. Metohija.

"Nobody contacted us or contacted the people there, there is a lot of silence from them," Loncar said.

Ljiljana Delibasic, director of the "Kosovska Mitrovica" institution of Apoteka, told RTS that the situation in pharmacies was alarming.

"The shops are almost empty, there is no basic medicine for chronic painkillers and others," said Delibasic, pointing out that the problem had existed for several years because the institutions of Pristina issued special permits for the delivery of medicines from central Serbia.

She pointed out that analgesics, insulin, high pressure therapy, cytostatics are absent.

"Our citizens have to go to neighboring cities in Raska, where they can take prescription drugs," Delibasic said.