Employment Required Where Health Staffs Are Missing

The Kosovo government has allocated the budget for employing young health professionals. 300 new positions have been approved for primary health care, while 100 priorities for priority categories have been approved for secondary and digestive care.

Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Ilir Tolaj, does not seem very optimistic about such employment. He hopes these will not be done for political gain.

“From the practice of past years, any government that comes uses the uncontrolled employment of new health workers in different sectors depending on their interests in gaining political points. If this employment has that goal, no positive effect will be achieved in terms of improving quality of health services”, Tolaj said.

Diana Metushi, from the Kosovo Democratic Institute, sees the problem not only in creating jobs in the health sector. It also says that it is very important to create working conditions for doctors.

For whom would those 400 jobs open when we're running out of doctors from existing jobs. Funds are constantly shared, jobs are promised, and are in order, because Kosovo needs to. The problem, however, is to hold back the doctors we have, create good conditions for them, and then open up new jobs”, Metushi said.

While the Federation of Kosovo Doctors, Tevide Imer, says that in primary medicine, employment requirements are much larger, and especially for nurses. But immediate employment requirements include anesthesiology, child cardiosurgia, pediatric surgery, mother and child services, mountain - disease services, and so on. /rtk