For the first time in Albania, the International Medical Multidisciplinary Congress was held on “Continuing Education by Medical Professionals” organized by the American Hospital.

More than 12 clinical sessions were discussed at this event, with well-defined focuses on the contemporary achievements in the modern medicine.

This event, the first of this dimension in its specifics and with a global involvement, brought in Tirana many well-known figures and eminences of health from different specialties of the world medicine.

More than 45 foreign and Albanian lecturers honored this important event with their participation, amongst whom Prof. Dr. Philip Caushaj (USA), Prof. Dr. Felice Giangasparo (ITALY), Prof. Dr. Ethem Beskonakli (TURKEY), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosendahl (GREAT BRITAIN), Prof. Dr. Josef Besik (CZECH REPUBLIC), Prof. Dr. Jurgen Ennker (GERMANY), Prof Dr Neyir Eren (TURKEY), Prof. Dr. Marco Jaccobbi (ITALY), Prof. Dr. Venanzio Valenzia (ITALY), Prof. Dr. Sadik Ersoz (TURKEY), Prof. Dr. Ugo de Santis (ITALY), Prof. Dr. Claus Boheim (AUSTRIA) and many others.

Well-known figures of medicine in Albania and Kosovo were granted Certificates of Gratitude in this event, for achievements and contributions in years, preparation of young generations of doctors, the dedication of their lives in service of patients and human values embodied by the professional doctor.

Over 500 doctors of various specialties from Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia participated and contributed to the exchange of experience and medical knowledge, encouraging one another in our common effort to fight the disease and save lives, turning this event in a wide Albanian Congress.

The American Hospital successfully operates for nine years, always keeping primarily the health of patients across the Albanian territories. The American Hospital is an Albanian-American investment of the Bedminster Capital Management fund and aims at providing quality health services through professional staff, selected locally and internationally, strongly supported by the most modern technology in the medical field.

In appreciation of the great clinical and pedagogical contribution, and the maximal professional devotion in the field of surgery of transplants, realizing renal and hepatic interventions, tirelessly and with sacrifices, and as a sign of gratitude for the extraordinary professional devotion in the field of cardio surgery, in sharing and exchanging the rich scientific experience and realization of interventions impossible before for Albanian patients:

The President of the Republic, Mr. Bujar Nishani decorated Prof. Dr. Neyyir Tuncay Eren, cardio surgeon, for a very important contribution realizing the most difficult heart interventions, and for the first time realizing the coronarography and coronary artery revascularization in an acute condition of myocardial infarction – which was one of the most undisputed achievements of the cardio surgeons team. From born defects to valvular system problems; from aorta surgeries to bypasses; from aorta ascendens to femoral and carotide arteries, every cardiopathy that for 9 years have been treated by the talented team of the American Hospital.

The President Mr. Nishani decorated Prof. Dr. Seyit Mehmet Sadik Ersoz, a doctor of the American Hospital, who undertook a challenge for the Albanian medicine – the transplants of the Kidneys and Liver, realized for the first time in Albania. Today we count more than 80 transplants successfully performed by our team of surgeons and three centers of hemodialysis with a capacity of 381 beds, making the American Hospital the only center focused in the treatment of patients with renal insufficiency.

The American Hospital undertook to bring the Albanian patients what they deserved, that what is often sought outside Albania, what the Albanian medicine with all the talent and dedication of doctors, in the absence of conditions and technology, had not offered.

With the biggest and most important investment, the American Hospital, the First private hospital in Albania with the most advanced technology and specialized medical staff, brought the highest medical standards for Albanian patients.

Today, after 9 years, the hospital has 300 000 patients, who we are trying to hear the voice and become familiar with their requests one by one.

For the first time in Albania, the American Hospital performs the kidney transplant. The team of doctors was composed of doctors from Turkey, USA, Austria and Albania. The first two transplants, performed in this hospital, were free of charge for the patients, although they are classified as operations with a very high cost. They were supported financially by the Albanian government, together with the Ministry of Defense and Health. The staff of professors in the operation was led by Prof. Dr. Ersoz Sadik, head of the Department of nephrology at the University of Ankara, and the chief of the Transplant Center at UA.

After the successful progress of the first two patients transplanted, the American Hospital undertook other 80 renal transplants with living donors, already based on the agreement with the Ministry of Health, under which the American Hospital undertakes the kidney transplant program, thus satisfying the need for patients to be transplanted in clinics abroad.

Patients underwent contemporary protocols defined by the collaboration of the entire team. The procedure conducted with the support of the Albanian Government continues to be monitored by the team and the American Hospital laboratory and it has all the attention of senior leaders of the American Hospital.

The key points enabling the American Hospital realize the transplant not performed before in Albania.

• A unique laboratory that makes the compliance of the organs and the post-operation tracking of the patients.
• A specialized team of surgeons with a lot of experience.
• A team specialized for post-operation tracking of the patients, which is one of the most delicate of the entire program to avoid throwing of the organs by the patient.
• Facilities and equipment necessary to perform the intervention (two rooms available for the intervention in the donor and recipient at the same time)

Women and Fertility Center of the American Hospital offers a very wide and complete range of services, in terms of women’s health. We have not only the right team and the best doctors, but also the physical possibilities and the most advanced equipment. From pregnancy to birth, from the gynecological checkup to fertility problems, ranging from the simple gynecological problems to the cervical cancer.”

But the range of services provided by the Women and Fertility Centre at SA is spacious. Besides birth, every woman can handle different pathologies, conduct examinations to prevent serious diseases, such as uterine cervical cancer.

For several years, the American Hospital has restored hope for some couples, who have dreamed of having children. The talented team of doctors of the women and fertility center at the American Hospital, directed by Prof. Dr. Hakan Satiroglu, has recorded success stories in handling cases that were impossible until yesterday. The known Turkish professor says that having a child is not enough, because for a couple it is very important that the child is born healthy.

In Vitro fertilization for many couples has been the missing solution. Dr. Satiruglu is satisfied that thanks to the talented team and the modern facilities at the American Hospital, every couple can have its own child at the time it wants if they trust the work of his team.

Determined to ensure the highest quality of care for patients in Albania, Kosovo and beyond, the American Hospital with a new team of neurosurgeon doctors have recently introduced the use of an advanced technological system, an image guided system for brain surgery; the epiduroscopic-endoscopic system for the management of the spinal pains, and not only.

The American Hospital neurosurgeons Prof. Dr. Ethem Beskonakli, Prof. Dr. Ozerk Okutan and Op. Dr. Baris Saygili specializing in surgery of the brain and spinal cord handle problems from the most simple to the most complicated ones. With services such as invasive spine surgeries without anesthesia with endoscopy-epiduroscopy, neuro-oncology, peripheral and neuro-vascular nerve surgery, our team offers a wide range of neurosurgical treatments, which will always be performed at the American Hospital.

According to Dr.Beskonakli, the team of neurosurgeons offers a comprehensive neurosurgical program in the Balkan region, Albania and Kosovo by providing a full range of services. The latest innovation in the neurosurgery program of the American Hospital is the neuro-navigator system (the guide of images), the latest equipment used in the procedure of brain surgery and spinal cord surgery.

Apart from this, Prof. Dr.Okutan and Dr.Saygili are specialized and oriented towards invasive most advanced treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) and back pains.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Tirana has appreciated the work by giving a special prize to the American Hospital, as a leader in the hospital service in the country, with national standards and not only, but also with the technology and high professionalism of its staff. Every day making improvements and advancements through research work and education.

Dr. Klodian Allajbeu, the General Director of the American Hospital, says that the hospital has been a new way for many surgical interventions performed for the first time in our country; the dream of transplants come true, and the opening of hospitals in and out of Tirana to the help of patients.

American Hospital is constantly working toward perfection for the service it provides. For more motivation and work that serves the daily purpose of tireless doctors to give life the value it deserves, for contributing to the education of a responsive and attentive society to the health and prevention in time.

This not only makes the American Hospital the first and only health facility in Albania certified for quality, but it also motivates us to run after other ongoing challenges to be always the first and best.

The American Hospital and the University College London Hospital for the first time in Albania presented the Trans esophageal Echocardiography, the newest imagery method in diagnosing and examining accurately the heart diseases.

The American Hospital has signed an important agreement with the University College London Hospital, through which renowned cardiologists and cardio surgeon British professors will soon cooperate with the medical staff of the American Hospital. In the framework of this agreement, on Wednesday, at 09h00, the American Hospital in cooperation with the University College London Hospital organized a two Seminar on Cardiology.

In this seminar, all the cardiologists and cardio surgeons participating from the country were informed about the foreign experience and the newest methods of diagnosis of the heart diseases.

This seminar on “Trans esophageal Echocardiography” was held in the Hotel Tirana International, where two cardio surgeons from the American Hospital Dr. Besnik Kojqiqi, Dr. Arben Kojqiqi, and the cardiologists Dr. Alfred Nona and Dr. Nereida Xhabija referred their topics regarding their research work in order for the participants to get to know accurately and to appreciate the importance of the trans esophageal echocardiography in diagnosing heart diseases before and after the operation phase.

In addition, the well-known cardiologists from University College London Hospital, Prof. Dr. Andrew Smith and Prof. Dr. Vivek Sivaraman, important invitees in this two day seminar, brought the foreign practice in the field of Cardiology, and they presented the new methods of diagnosis and the most advanced treatments in a series of heart diseases.

The American Hospital, the first and the biggest health institution in Albania continues successfully the realization of the transplants, where recently the liver transplant was realized.

The doctors of this hospital realized successfully the liver transplant to a 34 year old patient, B. Xh. who underwent more than two weeks ago the liver transplant in the American Hospital. The specialized team made up of foreign and Albanian doctors like Prof. Dr. Sadik Ersoz, Dr. Kadir Burak Koza and Dr. Arben Murati, general surgeons have successfully realized this particular and difficult intervention for the surgery in the country.

The patient was diagnosed with hepatitis B, which had caused liver cirrhosis. The donor for this patient was his 60 year old mother, who after the proper examination, the doctors made sure that her liver was suitable for this transplant.

This intervention, the first of its kind not only in the Albanian medicine, but also in the regional one, was realized successfully.

According to the American Hospital doctors, the patient and his mother are in good health conditions and have faced successfully this intervention together.

The Albanian Football Federation and the American Hospital in Tirana have made official today in the premises of AFF their 10 year collaboration agreement, where the national football team shall have the needed health support from the specialized staff of the American Hospital.

The agreement was signed by the General Secretary of AFF, Mr. Ilir Shulku, and the American Hospital Director, Mr. Klodian Allajbeu, who in the presence of the media at a press conference made public that this agreement is useful for our national team. This important agreement with a duration of 10 years includes in addition the entire Albanian football that is a member of AFF, thus the super league teams and the teams of registered age groups in the Football Federation.

The American Hospital Director, Mr. Allajbeu made known that the American Hospital under this signed agreement serves both to our national team, and the Albanian football.

Meanwhile, the AFF secretary, Mr.Shulku declared to the media that AFF and the American Hospital are concluding this agreement in the service of the Albanian football needs.