Syla: Albin Kurti is being hypocritical in dealing with doctors, his idea is unconstitutional

Candidate for Prime Minister, AIbin Kurti declared that during his rule doctors should choose the sector in which they want to work, as the early employment in the two sectors will be unable.

But his statement has awakened dissatisfaction with most health workers.

Federation of Kosovo Health Union ( FSK), Blerim Syla, said such statements, well-advised, negatively affect the medical community.

He says that in terms of this problem, the Constitutional Court has ruled in their favour since 2013, as Kurti's idea of re-acting this subject is considering discriminatory, but also unconstitutional.

This Kurt's statement has indeed raised a concern because conditions to deal with such a statement are not ripe. The situation in the medical community has not been properly analysed, and the most important is not the Constitution. As you know in 2013, I've been myself attending the session as a side of interest and this subject has been acquired because it is considered to be damaging only one community. That's why I said at the Court that if you want to violate the Constitution, step on it, but I know the medical community is the population”, he says.

The head of FSK says such a decision would be acceptable if it was applied to all sectors, but not only to the doctors.

So you can't just share one community in this case with doctors and others to continue. The logic of this action would have been good if professors, jurists, economists, accountants were involved. So it's generally discriminated against. It may also have been Kurt's promise even in the campaign, but if he enters the most subtle analysis he will see that it's a mistake and it's too early to discuss this matter”, he says.

Syla says the health system is facing many problems and that it is not the right time to talk about doctors' penalism.

Such initiatives taken by the candidate for prime minister are even considered hypocritical.

The first to say today that the public system should be separated from the private, when we are facing several crisis hospitals of medical workers, is hypocrisy of its kind. Because they have also promised to offer services to the patient. Second in view of the financial situation in which doctors today find themselves because they have been forced to cover household expenses. The doctor has been living for years, but today he still lives at 600 euros. Although they have now grown up with the law on wages, if you want this system to be introduced, then doctors should be declared”, he says.

Syla says that as far as this case is concerned, they have held the chairmanship meeting, where the idea erupted by Kurti is unanimously opposed.

It is convinced that if this idea is carried out in practice, the overwhelming majority of experts will abandon the public system and create real chaos.

And we've discussed it at the helm, but even with the doctors that I've been talking to these two days, believe that most who have 15 years of experience have been declared to release the public system. The third fact is economic. Political parties have declared they will increase the number of workers. This decision will reduce the number of workers. It's considered to be around 2000 ordances, without taking private hospitals, where the same doctors work in the afternoon and imagine these two thousand paying taxes and each having a minimum of three workers. Automaticly, taxes and wages systems stand at about 6 thousand workers and produce a” crisis, he says.

Before such a decision is made, Syla advises the prime minister and the future government to take some steps to establish health services and working conditions.

It requires MP-level salaries, as one of the preconditions to separate the public system from the private one.

A doctor's “value must be exceeded at least by parliamentarians. That's the first point. The second point, the conditions they need to make sure they work on the public system. Politicians are not aware that when health insurance comes into force in the public system we should have equal conditions in the market. And the third element that's very important. How to arrange doctors to offer the patient. So tomorrow the health insurance is contracting public and not private. These are preconditions, and this is the solution. If these are made to be convinced that most doctors will decide to stay in public”, it concludes, the online economy reports

In 2013 The Constitutional Court approved claims that three provisions of Article 41 of the Health Law, which asked doctors to determine whether they want to work in the private or public health system, are incompatible with Article 49 [Work Rights and Professional Army] of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.

Article 41 has to do with “Forging the conflict of interest”, and points rejected by the Court are 1, 5 and 6.

This article was the most controversial and was rejected mainly by doctors, their union and a group of MPs, from which the procedure for interpretation was initiated at the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.

Prepostering the motion were 12 Kosovo Assembly deputies led by Shaip Muja (PDK), who on December 20, 2012.

By its ruling, the Constitutional Court, in part, has given the Ministry of Health ( MS), rejecting the MP group's claims. /economics/