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PRISTINA -- Doctors of the Center for Peace and Tolerance bring Serbs and Montenegrins stranded in their apartments in Pristina food in addition to medicines, Dr. Milica Lukovic told Tanjug on Wednesday.
"We find people who are bed-ridden and who have had nothing to eat for days, they live in horrendous conditions, their movement is limited, thus also their ability to secure anything - from medicines to food," she said.
Serbs and Montenegrins in Pristina are hiding from ethnic Albanian terrorists.
During the day, several families stay together in one apartment, and at night, one family member sleeps in each apartment. They are people who have been born here, whose roots are here, who cannot imagine leaving, they would rather die. They are suffering grave psychological trauma, she said.
The medical center of the Center for Peace and Tolerance daily performs 25-30 examinations. It was opened 45 days ago and there are three doctors and one nurse on duty round the clock, Lukovic said.
Patients include all age groups, from children to the much more numerous group of elderly persons.
"Dominant ailments are psychoses and those caused by these troubles, such as high blood pressure, stroke, stomach ulcers, diabetes, and others. We make house calls with a KFOR escort, and hospitalize difficult cases at the Red Cross medical center in Kosovo Polje, where the Russian hospital is nearby for cases which require surgery," she said.
There are difficulties in securing medicines, primarily sedatives, also those for high blood pressure, diabetes, analgetics, antirheumatics, she said.
The KFOR is trying to help, but it mostly ends with empty promises, and medicines arrive from other parts of Serbia, Dr. Lukovic concluded.