Ministry: Staff engaged in pandemics have expired contracts

Linked to various information about medical and operational staff contracts engaged through the Kosovar Health Project (PSHK) and financed by World Bank borrowing, the Health Ministry informs the public that it has not cut off the contracts of this staff, but that the same have been completed according to the duration they have had.

It informs me that contracts signed for medical staff (medical, nurses, laboratory technicians, inspectors and technical support personnel), engaged during the COVID-19 pandemic, some conclude on June 21st, 2021, and that the same cannot be extended because the Kosovo Health Project has not been budgeted for that purpose.

The commitment of the medical and operational staff has been made by calling to the Law for the Prevention and Combat of COVID-19, on the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, which allows temporary commitment to urgent needs.

The current epidemiology situation is now much calmer and data from the daily reports of the Kosovo Hospital and University Clinical Service show that the number of patients with COVID-19, currently in treatment, is much smaller than at the time of the engagement of this staff, a part of which have been engaged not in medical services, but in the MS administration.

According to the last 24 hours' report, there are a total of 77 patients in the country's general hospitals (for COVID-19), of whom confirmed with COVID-19 are 28 patients.