GRACANICA, KOSMET: PATIENT DIED BECAUSE HE WAS UNABLE TO CALL EMERGENCY

The medical centre in Gracanica, Kosmet, has announced that patient M.D., aged 76, from central Kosmet, died yesterday because the Kosovo authorities had disconnected the telephone signal for Serbs in Kosmet and he was unable to ring emergency. He has been the first victim of the violent destruction of Serbian telephone lines on the part of Kosovo authorities. The medical centre specifies the patient felt unwell on 27 September, that he was not able to telephone and that his daughter fetched doctors yesterday. However, his condition had deteriorated despite medical intervention and he died yesterday afternoon. This terrible warning and the loss of a human life reflect the difficult condition of Serbs in Kosmet and the impossibility of doctors to intervene in time, the announcement reads. On Sunday, the Kosovo authorities destroyed the base stations of TELEKOM SRBIJA in Kosmet, claiming the company had no licence to work there, which TELEKOM denied, assessing that as another pressure on Serbs in Kosmet. Some 80,000 Serbs are estimated to have been left without a mobile telephony signal and thousands of them do not have fixed telephony either.