In less than 2 months, 36 doctors left the public health sector

Thus has the chairman of the Kosovo Medical Oda, Plerat Sejdiu, who has stressed that these figures are alarming of a great possibility of leaving doctors from public health institutions.

These two months, we have 36 of our colleagues who just got the documentation and they're in the final phase or just because they've gone and this number is the indicator that we're going to have more than last year than 210. It's discouraging, but let's see that there's a dynamisation of activities in the Ministry of Health and let's see what it can affect”, Sejdiu said.

Although February monthly wages are already expected to come up with increases, under the new Law of Salaries, this, according to Sejdiu, is not expected to influence doctors not to leave the public for private.

According to him, a significant component of these health professionals who are continuing to exercise their profession in private hospitals is also the lack of pressure and working conditions.

“80% of them have not been satisfied with the amount of cofficiency and we have published this. Why is this, according to all odds, expected a greater amount for co-operatives and in this regard, frustration. How much I'm not sure is going to impact, it might affect young specialists or doctors if the employment condition that there are many unemployed is currently 360 unemployed. On the other hand, the doctors, who are thought or puzzled in the private sector, will have little to do with it. They see what that impact will be, but I don't think it's going to affect much because the salary is just one component and the main component, which our doctors are releasing are the pressure on the job, the working conditions these are the main ones, the quiet in the work sector is better in private than the loan”, Sejdiu stressed.

Regarding the Health Ministry's warnings that it will soon open competitions for specialists, Sejdiu hopes that a real planning will be made.

For administrative instruction on professional schooling, the OIC chairman has considered it better than the previous one, since it is more precise.

And we hope that the Minister of Health will do a real plan, where there will be an analysis of how many specialists we have to have, when they're going to end, what the priority branches are, and will that number be limited since we have to leave at any cost a mess, which has happened a few years ago, and it's a mess, which actually stimulates the number of evacuations, 211 are about 60 specialists, who are leaving most of them because of the special conditions... if these are not going to be okay... if they're not much better than they're passed, and we're going to have some more specific comments, but we're going to have to be more specific comments, but we're going to have a lot more specific. We continue now and how many years we insist that this be regulated by law and not with administrative guidelines”, he added.

Health Minister Arben Vitita stated days ago that administrative instruction for professional schooling is in the final phase. He has announced that after public consultations and signing it, the contest for specialists will be opened.

And in the past year, Kosovo's public health sector has faced a major escape from doctors, both in the private sector and abroad. For 12 months, KSKUK has left over 210 doctors. / KP/