PHOTO/VIDEO: "Sloboden Pechat" journalist Miroslava Burns received the second EU award for investigative journalism

The journalist of "Sloboden Pechat", Miroslava Burns, today in Tirana received the second prize for investigative journalism of the European Union for the Western Balkans and Turkey. Burns has been awarded for a series of writings and media content about Yaldz Veaposka, a nurse from Debar who went to the Struga hospital to give birth by caesarean section, but left without three healthy organs: uterus, kidney and ovary.

The journalist received the first prize Irena Karevska from "360 degrees" for the story about the procurement of software by the former Secretary General of the Government Dear Rashkovski. The "Code" team (Snezhana Lupevska Sozen, Miomir Serafinovic, Biljana Nikolovska and Emilia Misirlievski) won the third prize for his research on fatal accidents for which the perpetrators receive only probation, not prison sentences.

Burns reported on the case extensively, consistently and persistently on several occasions, and the story caused exceptional public attention and caused the closure of the wild practice that the gynecologist who performed the operation had in his home, and who was also the director of the practice at the time. General Hospital, Doctor Muhammad Asani. After several months of pressure, Dr. Asani was also removed from the director's position in the Struga hospital.

The State Health and Sanitary Inspectorate, after the inspection, determined that Asani did not have a permit for the surgery he had in the premises of the family house and issued a ban on its operation, and a dozen women gave statements to a notary that Asani monitored their pregnancies in a surgery located at his home. . Doctor Asani, according to Veaposka's testimony for "Sloboden Pechat", first in his home, where it later turned out that he had an unregistered practice, managed her pregnancy, and then operated on her by caesarean section in the Struga state hospital where he was also the director. The routine intervention ended with severe complications that threatened Veaposka's life.

On December 207, the court in Struga is expected to start the trial against Asani and two other doctors from the Struga hospital, who, according to the indictment, are charged with serious crimes against health according to article 1, paragraph 3 and XNUMX of the Criminal Code, because when pointing out the medical aid used an obviously unsuitable means and method of treatment.

Experts from forensic medicine, according to the document in our editorial office's possession, concluded that the deterioration of Veaposka's health condition to the point of endangering her life occurred due to damage to the left renal artery during the caesarean section. A basic problem and failure in Veaposka's treatment is the failure to take any measures to find out where she is bleeding from and what is the cause of the blood loss, writes the expert report from forensic medicine.

The European Union Investigative Journalism Awards in the Western Balkan countries aim to promote and support exceptional achievements of investigative journalists as well as help to make quality journalism more visible. The awards are sponsored by the EU and implemented by BIRN.

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