The first Prime Minister of Kosovo, Bajram Rexhepi has passed away at the age of 63 after remaining in coma for several months.
Kosovo’s media say that Rexhepi died in a hospital in Turkey, where he had been in coma for several months.
Bajram Rexhepi, who was a surgeon by profession, was born on 3 June 1954 in Mitrovica.
Graduated in medicine at the University of Pristina in 1979, he completed his post-graduate studies in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1985.
During the war with Serbia in 1999, Rexhepi joined KLA by serving as doctor.
On 4 March 2002, Bajram Rexhepi was elected as the first Prime Minister of the country and Ibrahim Rugova as President. /e.i/
