13 minutes agoKosovo doctors' departure continues, 155 left this year
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)The wage increase has not convinced doctors to stay in Kosovo. Only this year, 155 of them have migrated, show Oda's records. Fear has been expressed in the community of health professionals, that the situation will deteriorate to 2024, when visas are also liberalised against <x0-> brain failure”, this year [...]
The wage increase has not convinced doctors to stay in Kosovo. Only this year, 155 of them have migrated, show Oda's records. Fear has been expressed in the community of health professionals, that the situation will deteriorate to 2024, when visas are also liberalised
We're now somewhere at 155, which is less than last year. Last year it was, I think, over 200, so this year we have a drop in this number of applications for the necessary evacuation documentation, and this figure less than last year, I can say it might be related to visa liberalisation. And we can see that an increase can happen in next year, but these are all presumptions which we have to wait for”, said Oda Chairman Pleat Sejdiu.
The Medical Oda has investigated the motives of leaving health professionals. By this year's departure has been largely justified with low wages, but when they have grown, the reason has changed.
So far it's been pay, if not the first reason, the second. Now, wages are in third place, but the main reason still remains unemployment because most are young and unemployed doctors. We have over 550 doctors. I don't have the correct figure now that they're unemployed and these are, those are, they're looking for jobs and they're most of them leaving. That's it. And the second reason, the working conditions and the qualitative conditions of specialization because it's all those who expect, and then the salary starts to come”, Sejdiu said.
Even a member of the parliamentary Commission for Health, AAK deputy Shemsedin Dresaj, in an interview on the “60 minutes show” on KTV, has said that mostly the new doctors are the ones leaving.
These are young doctors who are not looking at the perspective in the country. They go to other countries, while our graduates' capacity is going somewhere if I'm not mistaken within the year, there's been 100, 122, but it's not 150 yet. Where are the sick, where are the ones who retire. So, I mean, we're in a trend of reducing medical and professional staff in the country”, Dresey said.
In the Clinical University Hospital Service, they didn't tell about the number of health professionals who left this institution this year.
KOHA has reported on the lack of specialists in several areas, which has also been followed by cancellation of the term for operations.
