Health to Chaos

The doctors' demand for salary increases through the adoption of the new draft wage bill is continuing. This imminent requirement for salary increases cannot be realised by any government, though health professionals say they have consistently received promises.

As a result, on Wednesday, the upcoming health workers' strike has been held, which was meant to last one day. The Steering Council of the International Health Federation has decided that the 24-hour strike will turn into a 72-hour strike.

According to a media report from this union, until this decision has been reached, after reportedly, the institutions “did not reflect” on their demands, adding that after the end of the year's holidays, the “strike would continue without a time limit, until the reflection of local governance on the demands of health workers”.

Despite this, at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, as the special reference centre for all of Kosovo, emergency services for patients have been offered. This confirms for Radio Free Europe the spokesman for this institution. Shpend Fazliu, according to which no human is in danger of life, although the entire health system has been on strike.

“Federata Health Union has long announced that it has organised a general strike, and all emergency services have been covered, while the ambulance patients have not been worked, so the strike has been respected. But it should be suggested that there was no case that made their health worse because of the strike. As far as operations are concerned, they were conducted only at the Emergency Clinic, until others were postponed due to strike”, Fazliu said.