MPs ask for better salaries for doctors, 150 every year ask for exit from Kosovo

In this direction former Health Minister Armend Zemaj in an interview for Online Economy said the government has shown inadequate in terms of adopting and completing the legislative strategy.

Zemaj added that if there is no completion of legal infrastructure, no pay support, and if there is no adequate schooling, then flight is inevitable.

The government has shown itself unable to adopt and complete the legislative strategy. Last year it was more cosmetics than content. On this level we've been trying to contribute as opposition. If there is no completion of legal infrastructure, if there is no pay support and no adequate schooling, and if there is no climate of support for health professionals, then the flight is also mandatory and doctors require more dignified conditions, jobs and wages of their dignity in other Western countries”, he said.

He says that they have consistently sought responsibility on the waiting list and the lack of drugs throughout the health system, but that has gone to deaf ears.

So according to him, it is time for the Ministry of Health to turn attention to adequate management and support of health professionals with salaries and benefits.

This is the reason we've constantly set up waiting lists, lack of drugs in an emotional way, mismanagement that happens in the managerial sense that there is a lack of supervision from the Ministry of Health that seems to be a kind of distance that is why our patients are suffering. There should be a return to attention even in the management despite the uncertainty of the pandemic now is the easiest situation and there is no reason for the situation to be so bad in our clinics and our hospitals because of mismanagement and no support to them even in wages and other benefits of”, Zemaj said.

While VV MP Burim Meta said they have received complaints of long expectations for receiving services from citizens at QKUK.

Meta also spoke of increasing the price of drugs, adding that there is no extreme rise compared to other articles.

“As far as increasing the flow of waiting lists for receiving services at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo we share the same concern in the MP. We said there would be no reason for this increase in the waiting list given that in time the capacity has increased. So we're expecting the KSKKKUK together with its director and board to take this job seriously and, of course, with activities even overtime on Saturdays and Sundays so that our citizens don't wait”.

“is not that there is extreme rise in the price of drugs compared to other products. We are expecting that the health ministry, which is working intensively on drafting the law, which defines the standardisation of prices and will be approved rapidly in order to become standardisation even among the drugstores”, Meta said.

As far as the Law on Health, Health Insurance and organ transplantation is concerned, Meta stressed that they will soon come for approval in the Assembly.

This year, if so. The health information system that precedes the insurance system and that law comes very soon, given that even for standardisation of the prices of medicines will come very soon. The minister has been at meetings abroad and has received the support of special health departments. We're hoping that these will live very quickly and we've noticed that with a dynamic commitment of the minister. We hope the minister will add his activity”, he said.

Karameta added that from information received from Oda of 150 doctors a year, they graduate, and the same is the number that wants to leave Kosovo.

According to him, the reason for this is the issue of low wages, EO reports.

This is a bad information. I can honestly say that from Oda's doctors it's said that 150 doctors a year graduate and that's the same number that I want them to leave. The door has been opened for Kosovo doctors in view of their quality, which shows in the exercise of office. The salary issue is leaving for many reasons, the well-being Germany offers much more than we offer at”, Meta said.