11 minutes agoHealth budget, 296m euros, needs identification of problems
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Growth in the health sector is being seen as welcome by health connoisseurs. The problem, they say, is how this budget will be exploited. Civil society says there is a lack of budget planning. Kosovo's government, with its new budget planning for 2023, has allocated 296 million [...]
Kosovo government with new budget planning for 2023 has earmarked 296m euros for health sector
Ilir Tolaj, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, has told Radio Kosovo that in addition to budget growth, setting investment priorities is necessary.
In a situation what the health system is, where needs are many in all sectors, the division of adequate priorities will be very important. The growth is welcome, but not enough and will depend heavily on how this budget” will be exploited, Tolaj said.
Diana Metushi, from the Kosovo Democratic Institute, tells Radio Kosovo that increasing the non-needed budget will reflect on increasing institutional performance if they take on spending the preliminary budget.
The Ministry of Health has, especially in the past three years, had an extremely low performance in budget spending. The main focus should be on identifying the problems within this dictatorship. I don't think we should just raise the budget. This could endanger this budget from being blocked and would not be exploited or misused further, said Metushi.
While from the Federation of Kosovo Doctors, Mayor Tevide Imer said that more than one billion euros should be invested in health if health levels are targeted along with developed countries.
