Better conditions are required for nurses to stop their departure

In the case of May 12th International Infermia Day, support for nurses also offered from the health ministry.

In the past two years, nurses are being challenged with the COVIED-19 pandemic challenge, which has recorded the need for strengthening and improvement of the nursing community.

He also said that in the absence of legal regulation, but also improving working conditions, many nurses are leaving Kosovo.

“This situation has witnessed the role and importance of nurses and the fundamental need to give due respect and care, legal and institutional. It is evident that the pandemic has highlighted some problems related to the positions of the nurses and has raised the need for strengthening and improving their position. That's why OIC has prepared and sponsored the nurse's draft profile law. We are witnessing that in the absence of legal regulation, improving working conditions, improving nurses' income, they daily navigate in search of jobs outside Kosovo, so in the near future if this dynamic continues we will have a lack of nurses and similar profiles. Therefore, it is the time of the end that with a seriousness and determination as soon as possible solve the current problems long-term”, he said.

Deputy Health Minister Dafina Geja-Bunjaku said the Health Ministry is working on creating better working conditions for nurses in order to prevent the flight of this community from Kosovo.

She said successful vaccine against COVID-19 is the best testimony to the work of nurses.

Beyond the big challenge for today's COVID-19 requires all of us to give the nurse in Kosovo attention and well-deserved care through investment in quality nursing education, create good opportunities for advancing better professional practices and investment in nursing leadership... Both the MSH and the Government of Kosovo are committed to doing whatever it is possible for nurses to create an environment with optimum working conditions, improving position and creating opportunities for development and professional advancement in order for nurses to be professionally at the level with colleagues in developed health countries, and also not to be the way out of the country they are forced to choose<1>, she said.

While OIK deputy chairman Lirimie Beqiri said that as the nurses' community came up well in the meeting with COVID-19.

“During that time and now that it's the Nurses' Day, it's always been known that we have the opportunity to express the frustrations or shortcomings that this profession has,”, she said.

Otherwise, today's table is organized by OIC with the motto “Nurses a voice to lead your investigation into nursing and respect global health insurance rights” and she started with a minute of silence in honour of nurses who died as a result of COVID-19.