Kosovo will soon remain without doctors

Failed cadrovic policies are urging Kosovo professionals to flee to countries where their work is properly assessed. Thus, Kosovo's health is jeopardising that it will soon be left without doctors and nurses because of their migration mainly to Germany.

Not only doctors but also many citizens of various professions are emigrating. According to an earlier research by the Federation of Health Union, which has been done with medical-asses students, it is taught that 73 percent of respondents have expressed their readiness to leave Kosovo.

Blerim Syla, chairman of the Kosovo Health Union Federation( FSSHK), for Kosovo's “newspaper Sot”, said the situation is alarming. “In the recent meeting of the European Unions we have received data that Europe has numerous needs for professional frameworks. Germany alone a year requires over 120,000 health workers, not alone. In view of this, large companies look for different profiles across the Balkans and where Kosovo has more youth”, he said. Chief unionist Syla laments that the evil is that Kosovo politics is becoming deaf and blind to this phenomenon. “F The SSHK did an analysis in 2013 about migration of health workers, but now the situation is more alarming. No more numbers can be spoken because doctors, nurses, and others find different routes to Europe”, he further explained.

The head of medical unions says we've already begun to feel the absence of doctors and others in our hospitals. If this continues the inconsistent approach of health policy, I fear that we will soon remain without new frameworks. That's because Kosovo is missing, 4,000 to 5,000 health workers, in order to have a real health system”, he praised. The “Taking into account that even the average age in doctors has reached over 50 years calculate for yourselves what the situation holds for us in ten years and that if we get the statements of doctors and students that they won't stay in Kosovo, that's a horror”, Syla said.