Sejdiu: 30 doctors in Kosovo exit procedure, some have already left

The chairman of the Kosovo Medical Oda, Plerat Sejdiu, says 30 doctors have left Kosovo in the first three months of this year. Sejdiu says that from this number, some have already left, and some are in the process of completing documentation to leave Kosovo.

And in addition to the doctor's departure, there is a large number of unemployed doctors in Kosovo, who currently number over 400.

Sejdiu says the institutions responsible for not taking steps to stop the departure of health professionals, while criticism has “for employing non-professionists”.

“For this three-month-old, we have 30 young colleagues who just fulfilled the documentation and they're in the process, or some of them just went away, which lets us know that nothing has changed during this time that we're trying to stop so it doesn't have any effect if I can say it's taken some attractive measures to stop or reduce this trajectory or the number of leaving”, Sejdiu said.

But along with Sejdiu's departure to Kosovo, more than 400 unemployed doctors also figure. And for that, Sejdiu wants the Ministry of Health and municipalities to create strategies for their employment.

“With the 2023 report means on January 1st, it means verifying through the budget lists of Kosovo and ATK benefits that they bring from ATK are self-declared 441 unemployed doctors who are very large... it is very true that some small municipalities with less attractiveness have problems to attract them, but it's meant for example, Obliqi, Fusha-Kosovo, who are ahead of the Pristina neighbourhood, so I think it's the last time the Ministry of Health and in this case, as a common strategy for the functioning of young people, because they need to know that it's four years's work, or so that it's zero-definance is equal to the process.

Due to this situation, Sejdiu has also criticised the central and local level because “employment has been misused”.

“The Ministry of Finance, not only now but also in the past, has always documented that they have given new medical jobs to the municipalities but those mayors who are responsible have employed other non-doc, no health workers and those countries have been misused and now the second phase comes is that it's the most problematic level of hospitals, which I believe are only beginning to have problems due to a lack of specialisation for a time and disproportional specialisations that are not given to the real needs of these regional hospitals, says Sejdiu.

“needs to be added here every time a failed specialisation system, and now we lack there in Pristina in some variety overload, and that makes it impossible even the lack of a binding legal framework for these young people who are educated by the state in this case because these are not salaries that are financial support for professional schooling and there is no legal framework that imposes on them to return where they are educated”, Sejdiu said.