Doctors choose: in public or in private, Albin Kurti's promise is made only if the Constitution is changed

The candidate for prime minister from Vetevendosje, Albin Kurti, in an interview for New Bugajski Hour, has declared that during his rule, doctors should choose whether they want to work in the private or public sector.

“The doctors must choose whether they want to work in the private or public sector, because it is not right to use public hospitals to recruit patients for treatment after working hours in private ambulances that these doctors have created”, Kurti said after being asked about his plan for health.

However, Kurt's promise is turning out to be problematic, for a Constitutional Court decision is different.

In 2013, a group of MPs had sent to Constitution Article 41 of the Law on Health, which required doctors to determine whether to work in public or in private.

The Constitutional Court, referring to these provisions, had ruled that these articles are incompatible with Article 49 of the Constitution that speaks of him as the Labour and Professional Army.

(Photo: Article 49 of the Constitution)

This decision thus gives doctors the right to work in the public and private sectors.

Contacted by Periscope, The chairman of the Kosovo Medical Oda, Plerat Sejdiu, commenting on this statement by Kurti has said it is not against such a definition, but that the Constitutional Court has spoken otherwise.

“We are not and have not been against such definition. The Constitutional Court has made a decision where provisions of the draft law on health were rejected through which the exercise of the medical profession in both sectors was prohibited, and this is based on Article 49 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo and as such is obliged to be respected by all institutions of the Republic of Kosovo. Therefore, to change this Action, the court practice of Constitutional Court” must be changed, Sejdiu said in conversation to Periscope.

Sejdiu also said it would be good if such a change in the health sector could be made, that would be true for all other sectors.

And if that is to be passed on, it should create a monitoring system that is in every state, not monitored by the patient, if the constitution is changed why not, but it should reflect on all professions not only the doctor but also the government economist who works in private, but also the professor who works in state affairs and private, to the doctor, if that's decided to be placed in all professions, it has nothing bad”, he said, for Periscope.

We remember that even Minister Uran Ismaili, in September of this year, had commented on this statement by VV candidate Albin Kurti. Ismaili had also declared at the time that if he were in the hands of a minister, he would have made such a decision long ago.

In a conversation about abrash.info, Ismaili had declared that the decision on the matter was taken and that it does not depend on a minister or prime minister.

“Jep proposals that are unconstitutional because it is known that the Constitutional Court has taken the case and does not depend on a politician. So it still shows his disability and shows a lack of information about the health sector. The first should change the Kosovo Constitution. So, there's a court ruling about it, otherwise I would have done it a long time ago. But he's talking about a case that's not at all possible for any ministry of no ministry, so this shows once again how little you know of the health system”, Ismaili declared.. /Periscopi/