Kurti's Plan for Doctors Warns Kosovo Hospital Empty

Doctors, who work both in the public sector and in private in Kosovo, have rejected the idea of Vetevendosje Movement leader Albin Kurti, who has said he will not allow them to work in both sectors. With making such a decision, it has been said that public health institutions will be emptied.

Kosovo's incoming Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, in an interview for the “show, New Bugajski Hour” on Kosovo Radio Television, has said doctors, who have working relations in private hospitals and public hospitals, should choose between one job.

However, this has not been welcomed by doctors who work in both sectors in the country. With the decision being made, it has been said that doctors will choose to work in private institutions and leave work in public, writes the newspaper “Zeri”

From the wealth statements made this year at the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency, it is seen that some of the doctors are paid much more in private institutions than in the CKUK and regional hospitals.

In his statement of wealth, KKUK University Clinic Director Ilir Kurtishi has said he receives a monthly salary of 848 euros from the Kosovo Hospital, Clinical and University Service, from stewards to the institution gets 340 euros from the Faculty of Medicine, and from college “Rezonca” receives 1,200 euros.

Emergency Clinic Director Basri Lenyan receives an annual salary from QKUK, 10,800 euros, while from college “Rezonion” it receives 12 thousand and 480 euros.

And the director of the Orthopedic Clinic, Arber Tolaj, said in his statement of assets that as an annual salary from QKUK, he receives 11 thousand of 392.57 euros from medical commissions, from private work in orthopedic 3,000 euros, from professional services at the <x0th>Otrilla” receives 2,497.36 euros, as well as from medical expertise in private business NSH <x2Drin & Rtoni<3x> of 900 euros.