Protests are warned unless technical and security workers are paid at QKMF hospitals

Technical and security workers are still on strike today at Family Medical Centers.

Independent Private Sector Union Chairman Yusuf Azemi says they are determined to continue the strike until the Ministry of Health and the Government of Kosovo meets their demands for these workers.

Azem at a news conference held today said they have not yet received any response from the Government for their involvement in the package of economic recovery, even though during yesterday's health minister Armend Zemaj said they will see budgetary opportunities and during today will announce the decision made.

And if there are no agreements and the workers are not paid then, Azem also warns protests.

While he says that if there is no agreement, and these workers are not paid, there will be protests.

“We under the agreement yesterday that we had with Minister Zemaj and SKKKUK's director, so that at least by noon today we could come up with a final position on how to carry the tools. So far we don't have information from them, and we don't know why. So we on the basis of the decisions we have, will continue on strike until we come to an end of the agreement, since we don't know why this deal has been postponed”, Azemi said.

According to Azem, the situation in hospitals has been heavy and that workers have refused to clean hospital facilities.

In some hospitals, the situation is very alarming even against our proposals for at least a cleanup of environments to be done, they refuse us because they say they want to respect the rules of the law on strike and we hope that soon the acters that are locked up and end this process as soon as we can, he says.

On the other hand, he said no agreement is reached for the involvement of these workers in the package for recovery, then institutions will be burdened.

This week must go like this, and at the end of the week the general council should be called... The first version will be the barricade in health institutions, unfortunately today we are on our way to it. The second is protest. Because these workers have to be paid, since the Minister of Health and the relevant bodies of” has said Azem.

Azzam has said that a company that performs services at the Family Medicine Clinical Centre has pressured workers, where it has issued notice that every missing day the workers will be removed from 20 euros of their salary.