5 minutes agoFrustrated with wages and working conditions: 174 nurses this year left Kosovo
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Between January and July of this year, no fewer than 174 nurses have sought plastic license as a condition to be employed abroad. While 81 nurses have sought confirmation of the Ethical Code. So has the head of the Kosovo Nurse Union, Nexhmie Gori, announced. The reason for leaving [...]
So has the head of the Kosovo Nurse Union, Nexhmie Gori, announced.
The reason for leaving Kosovo's health system, according to Gori, is the salary issue.
“Nighttime constructions, holidays are not paid, pay issue discrimination between nurses and doctors, heavy workload, non-recognition of nurses' work, don't participate in decision-making, in Borde, nowhere”, she said.
For the former health minister, at the same time a member of the Parliamentary Commission for Health from the LDK ranks, Armend Zemajn, the statistics of Kosovo nurses leaving are terrifying.
He has stated that mass evacuation of health professionals is alarming.
These nurses are really terrifying, that is. It's only been half the year, and we have this high interest in running out, you wouldn't call it concern. A GREM, whose sound is facing on deaf ears”, Zemaj stressed.
MP Zemaj has listed some of the reasons nurses are leaving the country.
There are many reasons, uncertainty about career development, lack of access to knowledge advance, small wages, no paying extra hours, toxic environments and unrecognizable treatment at the workplace”, he said.
Officials from the Health Ministry months ago have told Front Online that it is working to create good conditions for health staff.
The Ministry of Health is continuing with investments in infrastructure and medical equipment so that professionals can demonstrate all their potential. Even in this year's budget, the provision of equipment for the purpose of establishing new services is envisioned, the Ministry of Health says.
The member of the Parliamentary Commission for Health from the PDK ranks, Bekim Haxhiu, has declared on Front Online that during Kurti's Government over a thousand nurses have left Kosovo.
Haxhiu says health professionals are unhappy with working conditions and salaries.
During 2021 alone, 2022, 2023 during the Kurti Government from Kosovo have fled 1304 nurses, unhappy with wages and working conditions”, he said.
MP The PDK estimated that to leave the country, nurses have prompted government neglect.
The nurses' requests have been ignored by the government, and this has prompted their departure from Kosovo for better conditions”, Haxhiu said.
