{"id":13766,"date":"2023-02-03T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasprotivnasilstvo.org.mk\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:32:00","slug":"gender-equality-platform-gynaecologist-asani-must-be-prohibited-from-practicing-the-medical-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasprotivnasilstvo.org.mk\/en\/gender-equality-platform-gynaecologist-asani-must-be-prohibited-from-practicing-the-medical-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Equality Platform: Gynaecologist Asani must be prohibited from practicing the medical profession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The suspended sentence for the Struga-based gynaecologist, who spent years working \u201con the black market\u201d, merely shows that women\u2019s health in the country is \u201cnot worth a dime\u201d. All competent institutions and the Doctor\u2019s Chamber are accomplices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 February 2023<\/em> \u2013 The Gender Equality Platform has been outraged with the judgement pronounced by the Struga Basic Court imposing merely a suspended sentence to the gynaecologist Muhamed Asani, who had been illegally providing gynaecological services in an unregistered medical office in his own home between 2015 and 2020. Additionally, we have been appalled at the fact that the Court has failed to prohibit him from practicing profession, activity or duty, although such an option has been provided for in the Criminal Code.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the findings of the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate, who carried out a surprise inspection of his medical office two years ago, after which they brought criminal charges against him, and despite the strong reactions by the civil society organisations<\/a>, the Doctor\u2019s Chamber has not yet revoked the gynaecologist\u2019s licence, among whose patients was Jeldz Veaposka. Let us be reminded, gynaecologist Asani has been monitoring her pregnancy illegally in his home-based medical office, and during childbirth in the Struga hospital, registered in the official records as a standard surgical procedure, he removed her uterus, a kidney and an ovary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is therefore with great revolt that we are finding both the Court and the Doctor\u2019s Chamber to have sided with the gynaecologist in defending the illegal healthcare practice in the country. By suspending the punishment for his illegal practice in expectation of yet another criminal offence to be committed, they not only perpetuate the culture of impunity, but they unambiguously support the systemic negligence of women\u2019s health \u2013 instead of ferociously fighting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access to illegal health services always entails huge risks to people\u2019s health, which was only confirmed in Veaposka\u2019s case, for which Asani is also facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the Gender Equality Platform demand that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n