The oldest doctor in Bresanë, in addition to diagnosing health issues and offering regular consultation, Salihu also delivers babies and conducts urgent surgical interventions.
The village’s medical team is mainly comprised of family doctors and nurses, as well as a dentist and a pharmacist.
Bresanë’s Family Medicine Center has a basic laboratory, an ultrasound machine, a defibrillator and an old electrocardiogram machine, equipment that staff say meets their minimum requirements.
However, doctors say they don’t have essential serums for treating snake bites, a frequent occurrence in the Sharri mountains, especially during spring time.
The biggest village in the municipality of Dragash also has an ambulance for transportation in emergency cases. Mostly used to transport ill people to the regional hospital in Prizren, it is driven by a volunteer.