By: Albina Makolli    March 16, 2015

Flokart Smajli (26) has been working in St. Georg Hospital in Eisenach, Germany for over a year now. He finished his studies at the University of Prishtina and afterwards was offered the job in Eisenach. It took him only two months to get to his first job interview in a modern hospital-environment in Eisenach.

24-hour shifts, during which he is responsible for all 26 patients during the night, are part of his job. Flokart treats patients with epilepsy, strokes, and circulatory disorders. He is not only dedicated to diagnose them, but also to approach with care his patients, to talk to them and get to know them.

His German skills are very good when it comes to technical terms of his job, but he still needs to practice expressions of daily life. This is a skill he specially needs to build up relationships with his patients. Therefore, the head of his department organizes German classes twice a week, for which Flokart is very thankful.

Flokart Smajli’s experience in Germany started with a good cause and he expects it to be really rewarding in professional terms in the future.

Albina Makolli

Albina Makolli is a blog contributor. She fled Kosovo when she was four; she grew up in Germany. Albina received her under graduate degree in European studies, and then continued with a graduate program in Public Policy and Human Development at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Within the framework of her graduate program she specialized in Migration studies. Last summer (2012), Albina visited Kosovo for the purpose of conducting research for her Master thesis. The data that she gathered helped her to learn more about young Kosovars’ emigration plans and concerns about their country’s economic development. This summer she returned to Kosovo to work for the IOM and UNDP joint project 'Diaspora Engagement in Economic Development'. The purpose of the study is to facilitate and incentivise Diaspora investments in Kosovo.

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