Man dies in Serb enclave with cut off phones

Source: B92
GRAČANICA -- The Health Center in the Serb enclave in Gračanica in Kosovo has announced that a patient died because he was unable to call an ambulance.

The phones operated by Belgrade-based providers in enclaves inhabited by Serbs south of the Ibar River were cut off on Sunday and Monday by the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Priština.

According to the announcement today, the 76-year-old man, identified with his initials M.D., died on Tuesday around 17:10 CET.

Gračanica Health Center Director Radmila Trajković said that the ambulance team, once it finally arrived, was not able to save the man's life.

“His daughter came to our health institution upset, saying that her father was in a very serious condition and that he had been unable to call the ambulance all night. By the way, he was suffering from angina, he had cerebral infarction earlier and he was in a serious chronic condition, but on September 27 his condition acutely worsened,” she said.

“Our team then went to the scene where they found the patient in a life threatening condition. In other words, we were only able to go there on September 28 somewhere around 17:00, when his daughter found him, and give him medical attention. Our ambulance team unfortunately did not succeed, he fell into a coma yesterday and unfortunately died,” Trajković xplained.

Priština authorities took to destroying Telekom Srbija base stations south of the Ibar River this week, claiming that the company did not have the license to operate in Kosovo.
The Serbian telecommunications company has rejected these claims.