Doctors waiting for the prime minister to fulfil the promise of wage classification

All doctors in public health institutions, regardless of what field they work, are paid equally, with a salary of about 600 euros a month respectively. This is also true of nurses, who are paid from about 400 euros a month.

Health professionals value this situation as unfair. They've asked for wage categories. This has been said of Radio Free Europe chairman of the Federation of Health Union, Blerim Syla, adding further that health workers must have real appreciation.

“We have expressed our concern for low health staff salaries at Republic of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. The salary law must find the health worker at the merit site.

This has come to the prime minister's understanding that wage categories for health workers take place, and that we are now awaiting”, Syla has said.

He has added that the promised four per cent increase at the beginning of the country's prime minister's mandate, Ramush Haradinaj, has not presented real growth and that this has also been the reason for the union's response.

The government is aware that health professionals are not in the country deserved”, Syla added.

Doctors themselves discuss the matter of wages. They say the health system is one of the five pillars of the state, and should take care of the Government's dignified salaries for them.

Basri Lenyan, director of the Emergency Clinic at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo, has said that as the salary increases for health workers, their issue should be settled if they are to work in the public or private sector.

“One of the key components to maintain the health system and all health professionals and nurses is ensuring dignified pay. This means that doctors and nurses will focus on whether they want to work in the public or in the private sector. And so there's a balance between the two sections -- x1>.

The wage law, health care professionals, has lowered them from payments compared to other services at the level of the” institutions, Lenyan has said.

According to him, if workers in the health sector continue to be ignored, the latter will consistently seek their basic rights, as he calls them.

The current government will believe that the most important category, as well as one of the five pillars of state and one of them, health, are dignified. If a wage harmonisation is not achieved by sharing responsibilities, roles and obligations, we will consistently remain in search of basic rights to support ourselves and the family”, Lenyan has indicated.

The law on wages remains one of the continuing legal priorities, but has not been approved by the Government and the Assembly of Kosovo. Lack of this law also keeps it undefinated.

As in many other areas, both the health sector “tested” by nondefination of wage classification, and as a result of this, doctors have claimed it is not correct for doctors' salaries to be linear.