All Serbian staff left here after the peace agreement. Some Albanian staff, who say they hid in the mountains during the war, have returned. In addition to the previously reported sub-standard conditions, PHR has also received reports that this hospital has been used for Serbian military purposes, a clear violation of medical neutrality. One nurse informed our investigators that the Serb police had, over the past few months, used the top floor of the Hospital as a position to shoot the KLA below. NATO bombing of the Serb position has broken all of the windows in the hospital.
Conditions appear to have improved.
There appear to be a mixture of Serbian and Albanian patients. Both languages are spoken freely. Mitrovica Hospital Mitrovica is perhaps the last hospital in Kosovo with a nearly exclusive Serb staff. International physicians report that ill Albanians have a deep mistrust of the facility and therefore, the majority of the population has little access to secondary or tertiary care. The hospital is nearly empty of patients.