Doctors warn boycotts unless wages rise

The doctor expert in Kosovo is paid for the work he does at around 600 euros a month, until nurses with about 400 euros a month.

As in many other areas, the health sector suffers from non-definition of wage classification, and as a result of this situation, doctors have stated that it is not correct that their wages are linear, but that they should be classified.
Federation of Health Union leader Blerim Syla says they are working in that direction for all health sector wages to be raised, but also to have categories.

The debate between Union and parliamentary groups begins on Tuesday, but doctors from different parties also begin. From the government I have information that the cofficiency we've been classified is not about reconciliation. We're in the cofficient 5 for specialists and 4.5 other doctors, but nurses have been classified a lot lower. We are not of reconciliation”, said Blerim Syla, chairman of the Federation of Health Union.

Any action will be taken along with health workers. If they're not of reconciliation with classification, I'm afraid the situation will get worse. They've been waiting for four years to raise wages. They've been narrowed down and I think there'll be a 148x1> boycott, Syla adds.
According to doctors, their salaries are smaller than their colleagues in the region.

Basri Lenyan, a medical emergency specialist, has declared that the Law for Salaries, which is already expected to go to the Kosovo Assembly, hopes to pass without any problems, and, as he says, once and for all, restores the dignity of health workers.

Kosovo's “Health, immediately after the war, faces a minimum fee that has marked growth over the years. In the last five years, however, the paying of doctors and nurses is lower compared to all surrounding countries. I think that increasing the pay will become a reform of the law, which should be passed to the Kosovo Assembly. With pay hikes, the welfare of the doctor and his family will rise. And we have to continue the job, to offer health care to all citizens”, Lenyan says.

Doctors hope that by the time health insurance starts in Kosovo, then they will be paid on the basis of their performance.

Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service Director Basri Sejdiu, in an interview for Radio Free Europe, has said there will be salary categories, but also job risk will be better paid by now. He has said he has already become a working group on this very issue.

“We've made a working systematization team, and job risk will be better paid. A green light is seen that there will be improvement, but what will significantly impact health insurance, which on the basis of performance will increase payment. The health union took on more pay issues, but we have information that increased salaries will be acceptable to health staff”, Sejdiu said.

Persistent health workers have insisted on implementing the enormous demand for salary growth.

In the Ministry of Health, they have already declared that there are some health reforms under way, where even wage increases are one of the new ones that can bring about these reforms.