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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 4 (UPI) A Serb has been killed and an Albanian critically injured in separate incidents in Kosovo in the past 24 hours, KFOR spokesman Maj. Ole Irgens said in Pristina on Thursday.
The body of a former Serbian teacher, previously kidnapped, has been found in the village of Donji Obilic, Irgens said.
He also said that a 34-year-old Albanian was gravely wounded with four bullets as he was driving past the railway station in Djakovica. He was fired on from another moving car, Irgens said, adding that the wounded man was taken to the civilian hospital in the town.
Meanwhile, trouble continued in the Mitrovica hospital where Serbian staff and officials have been refusing to allow ethnic Albanian employees to enter the building.
The Serbian staff accused regional international administrator Martine Garrod on Thursday of wanting to drive the Serbs out of the hospital by threatening to sack its deputy director, Dr. Milan Ivanovic, under threat of arrest, Belgrade media reported.
"The arrest warrant against Ivanovic for setting out the views of the hospital staff different from your own represents the murky side of democracy which you have brought us and are imposing on us," the Serbian staff said in today's open letter to Garrod.
They alleged that Garrod wanted at all costs and by force to expel the Serbs and bring Albanians to the Mitrovica hospital, which is the only one in Kosovo where Serbs can receive treatment, they claim.
Because of Garrod's decision to dismiss Ivanovic, about 600 Serb hospital workers staged a protest Thursday, the Belgrade news agency Beta reported.
Garrod explained his decision by saying that Ivanovic was opposed to the creation of a multi-ethnic hospital and accused him of jeopardizing order and the normal functioning of the medical institution.
Ivanovic and his employees rejected these charges and pointed out that the hospital is already multi-ethnic as Albanians, Muslims and Gypsies, as well as Serbs, are employed there and that it provides medical assistance to all patients regardless of nationality.
Challenging the administrator, Ivanovic and other members of the staff spent the previous night in the hospital and the doctor made his regular rounds Thursday morning, Beta said.