Sejdiu: The Law on Salat Stops Migrating Doctors

Kosovo University Clinical Hospital Service Director (SHSKUK), Basri Sejdiu, tells Online Economy that the new Law on Salat was considered a law establishing the dignity of health workers, so its failure will have negative consequences.

He says suspending this Law has come at a time when many doctors and nurses are preparing to leave the country, so he hopes there will eventually be a positive decision by the Constitution.

“has been welcome this new law and its failure will have negative consequences. Because you can bring doctors and nurses more modern infrastructure, but even new equipment, but if they're materially bad, especially at this time when many doctors are performing language courses to go abroad, it's not welcome. Whether the constitutional right is right or not I don't know, but on the field we see that it would have been better to have been implemented and that late December the wages would have grown. The opposite is not good but remain in the hope of having a better solution”, he says.

Sejdiu says that to prevent the escape of doctors are trying to hire special doctors, however, he says that only wage raising would stop their migration.

We've offered jobs to about 300 young doctors who are very large. There are cases of sporadics when doctors also leave their jobs and go abroad, but there are times when they return from outside to work. But I'm saying that the paid raise will probably be additional motivation in the future to have greater interest in doctors and nurses to stay in their country”, he says of EO.

Another problem facing the health system, according to the head of KSKUK, is the concentration of doctors at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, leaving staff shortcomings in regional hospitals.

He says QKUK is overloaded with staff, so he invites doctors to compete in hospitals from them as well.

We've employed a lot of doctors and supported doctors of various profiles, and the competition that has been announced is calculated for all to have jobs and in that form we've acted. We've acted in a way that we haven't only opened the competition for CKUK, but also for regional hospitals. There have been shortcomings that some have been reluctant to compete in regional hospitals and have caused us a headache, with the trends of all employed at QKUK, which is impossible to fix when it is known to be a huge staff, while other hospitals suffer from a loss of”, he says.

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo weeks ago decides to suspend implementation of the Law on Salaries in the public sector in time of duration until 30 March 2020.

The Law on Salaries, on December 6th this year at the Constitutional Court, has sent the ombudsman institution, reportedly “the assessment of the compliance” of this law with the Constitution.

The same was adopted in February of this year, and early this month it was in force.