The well-known Kosovar surgeon Gazmend Shaqiri has died at the age of 83.
The news of his death was announced by Hajriz Rudari, director of the Vascular Surgery Clinic.
"Dear colleagues, it is with deep pain that I inform you that today, July 15, 2019, after a serious illness, our esteemed Professor and the founder of the Vascular Surgery Clinic, in the Republic of Kosovo, Prof. Dr. Gazmend Shaqri", he said, reports Koha.net.
"On behalf of myself, my colleagues and all the staff of the Vascular Surgery Clinic, allow me to express my condolences to you, my family, my colleagues and the people of Kosovo! May the memory of the esteemed Professor be eternal!", he wrote further.
The well-known surgeon prof. Dr. Gazmend Shaqiri was born in 1936 in Shkodër, the son of one of the prominent fighters in the anti-fascist war, Ismet Shaqiri. He completed primary school and high school in Pristina, while the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. He specialized in general surgery at the Military Academy in Belgrade, in 1969, while in cardiovascular surgery at UKECH in Prague and later in Texas (Heart Institute in Heuston).
Shaqiri is the founder of vascular surgery in Kosovo. With the opening of the Faculty of Medicine in Pristina, he was elected a lecturer (1969), then he was vice-dean and dean of this faculty. He defended his doctorate in the field of vascular surgery in 1974 and then received scientific titles. In 1983, he became a full professor of Surgery at the University of Pristina.
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For a time he led the Clinic of Surgery and Orthopedics in Pristina.
For a while he worked in Prague. After the last war in Kosovo, he led the Vascular Surgery Service. He was a teacher of many cadres and successfully performed a large number of complicated surgical operations.
He has published about 200 scientific papers and participated in many gatherings and scientific tribunes in the country and abroad. He published several books and monographs in the field of vascular and general surgery, such as: "Diseases of the arteries", "Surgery of the heart and aorta", "Medicine handbook in daily practice", "Emergency surgery - injuries", "Emergency surgery - acute diseases", "Monograph of emergency interventions", and others.
