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Melanne Verveer's Subject Files
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Valerie N. Guarnieri
08/03/99 03:31:39 PM
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To:
Katharine Button/WHO/EOP@EOP
CC:
Eric P. Schwartz/NSC/EOP@EOP
Subject: Pristina hospital
Please pass to Melanne:
I received some information on the Pristina hospital from USAID's DART in the field. The Center for
Disease Control epidemiologist who is on the team advised that, while there is more to be done, there
have been dramatic improvements to the hospital on a daily basis, hence the situation has likely changed
substantially since your contact was there. DFID, the British equivalent to USAID, has taken the lead in
supporting the hospital and is working very closely with ethnic-Albanian counterparts to run it. Apparently
they are doing a good job. The maternity center in particular is doing very well, delivering 30 babies per
day. While there are electrical outages in the hospital, as there are throughout Kosovo at this time, the
hospital does have a back-up generator that supports the hospital's emergency operations and babies are
not being delivered by candle light. The water supply is affected when the electricity goes out, though I
am still waiting for confirmation that the hospital has hot water.
The electrical outages and consequently water supply problems are issues that are not unique to the
hospital, and they are being addressed as part of the overall international effort to fully restore these
services. I have asked USAID/DART for more information on the status of efforts to fully restore these
services, overall and in the context of Pristina.