"It's terrible that doctors are running for MP", Neli Demi replies to Ylli Manjani: It's the opposite!

2025-03-14 16:30:03 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

"It's terrible that doctors are running for MP", Neli Demi

After Ylli Manjani's statement that doctors are running for MPs, the doctor and Euro-Atlantic MP candidate Neli Demi responded.

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Recently, I came across an interesting perspective from Mr. Ylli Manjani on the involvement of doctors in politics. I understand the concern and I see that he shares an opinion that is circulating among many citizens on social networks.
I too believe that doctors are irreplaceable, and any departure from this profession is felt. But is it really a loss when a doctor decides to enter politics? Or is it, in fact, an attempt to heal a system that often leaves citizens without the care they deserve?
I am not leaving medicine—I am taking it to a field where it can impact the lives of millions of people, not just the patients I treat. As a doctor, I have seen how wrong policies translate into hospitals without resources, patients who delay treatment because they cannot afford it, doctors who leave the country because they feel abandoned. These are not simply medical problems, they are political problems.
Say we lose a doctor to gain a deputy. But what happens when politics is left without doctors, without teachers, without people who have touched the reality of society? If politics remains only in the hands of those who have never felt the weight of a decision on someone else's life, then the loss is not just one doctor. It is an entire society.
So the question is not "Why does a doctor enter politics?" The question is: Can we longer afford a politics without doctors?

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