She came to Kosovo from Ulcinj at a young age, to continue her studies at the Faculty of Medicine due to the lack of literature in her hometown.

During her schooling, but also after graduation, she also faced some difficulties in Kosovo.

Vildana Goga-Çmega, who currently works as the head of the chemotherapy service at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo (UCCK), told the Telegraph about her challenges and vicissitudes, while achieving her dream profession.

“I am the doctor, Vildana Goga-Çmega, in the Oncology Clinic, I hold the position of head of the chemotherapy service at UCCK.

I am originally from Montenegro, exactly Ulcinj.

In 2000 I transferred from the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica and came to the Faculty of Medicine in Prishtina.

It was the year '98, '99, when I enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and at that time the riots of the war in Kosovo were heard among the Albanians in Montenegro.

"There was a constant lack of literature, even though I came to Kosovo…", she confessed.

Oncologist Vildana Goga - Çmega, in an interview for Telegraf

Goga - Çmega, further continued to show the disagreements he had with the family because of the mentality there for the girls.

"I was lucky to have a brother here to study, because although we in Ulcinj have a different mentality, because leaving the country is a reluctance, but also the support of my parents and my inspiration that I have always had to study medicine, this has been the motivation of a thousand parents not to hinder me on this path ", she said.

The head of chemotherapy also recounts the difficulties she had from the separation from her family to the prejudices she had experienced due to the decision to put on the headscarf.

"It is really difficult to be separated from the family, then to be included in a new society where you do not know anyone, with a new culture and a different mentality.

In 2000 here there were discrepancies between choice, appearance and appearance.

And given the fact that I was immediately covered, in the same year I came to Kosovo.

"This was a new challenge that I did not really expect, because it was a new prejudice against me, be it for my physical appearance, or for my flaws that I was supposed to have as physical or even mental at times", u says the doctor.

Oncologist Vildana Goga - Çmega with her family

"This is not a mosque, but a public place", was one of the prejudices that Goga-Çmega encountered at her workplace.

"You do not feel good the moment they go to work and say that this is not a mosque but a public place, this is just the beginning.

I do not want to mention more because I do not want to discourage myself or other girls in what I went through, because the headscarf does not make you feel bad is the part that made you feel very beautiful and made you break "those taboos of people who think differently," she said.

Goga - Çmega with her colleagues on a working day

Among other things, she remembers with great nostalgia, the time when she met her husband, and where they later crowned their love with marriage.

"That period is a very beautiful part of my life, regardless of all the difficulties I had.

"I thank God for my husband for the support he gives me, especially when they moved with their families to live in Skopje for five years that I stayed there," recalls dr.

Vildana.

In addition to the love they had for each other, it was her family and her husband that prevented them from continuing their life journey.

"There has been disagreement on the part of a thousand parents, that the girl is going too far for us, she is getting married in a country with a different mentality.

But there were points that united us and we wanted to convince the other that we are for each other.

My husband and I were introduced by some friends who knew me from Ulcinj ", emphasizes Goga - Çmega.

Oncologist Vildana Goga - Çmega, under the control of patients

However, this effort was in vain due to the fact that both had decided not to be influenced by the opinions of others.

"Both families, like mine and my husband's, have shot many locals.

My family only wanted me to get married in Ulcinj, my husband's family only in Rahovec to find a bride from Rahovec, because my husband is from Rahovec.

"We decided not to listen to someone else's thoughts and recommendations," she said.

Goga-Çmega, also emphasizes the difference made by society in Kosovo in terms of gender.

"There is still a difference between being a female doctor and a male doctor.

I have cases when patients come when I am with a male technician and I am a female doctor, they call me a sister and a doctor technician.

"There are still such differences."

She finally has a message for the end for all the girls.

"My message to all women is to never forget how important their contribution is.

To be as original as possible, to be themselves and to know that their evaluation is done on the basis of intelligence and values ​​that they possess and never on the basis of appearance ", she concluded.