Kumanovo, 19 March 2025 (MIA) — Health Minister Arben Taravari has dismissed the director of the Kumanovo General Hospital after reviewing the initial findings in the investigation into the case of a 32-year-old patient who died Monday after going into anaphylactic shock, MIA's Kumanovo correspondent reports. 

Declining to share details, Minister Taravari said a report by the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate he had read earlier Wednesday provided sufficient grounds for dismissing Stefan Trajanovski as hospital director.

Taravari said he was in Kumanovo to visit the bereaved family of the young man who died on March 17 after receiving medical care at the Kumanovo hospital.

"I visited the late 32-year-old Vedat Ademi's family to extend my condolences," he said, adding that the hospital director was being dismissed because of "some irregularities" and that he "should have made sure this sort of thing never happened."

A new hospital director would be appointed Thursday, the health minister said.

Earlier Wednesday, in response to reporters' questions about the patient's death, Taravari said it could have been caused by a sudden-onset allergic reaction to a medication. It is not yet known what caused the patient's anaphylaxis, a response by the immune system trying to fight off an antigen.

State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate and Ministry of Health teams are conducting the investigation. Kumanovo police officers questioned the medical staff on duty at the hospital and a public prosecutor has ordered an autopsy. 

The 32-year-old Kumanovo resident, who had been admitted to the hospital complaining of abdominal pain, died Monday at 11 am after attempts to resuscitate him failed. mr/