Financial incentives for GPs if more than 70% of their patients are vaccinated

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We have been researching for the past two or three days and we will propose a new measure to the Government, and that is a special incentive for family doctors. That is, the family doctors to be financially stimulated when they exceed 70 percent of the vaccination from the total number of supported patients to be rewarded with 30 denars per patient from the total number of patients who are registered with them. There are some other aspects that need to be considered here, but I think that this is the proposal that we will present to the Government on Tuesday, said today the Minister of Health Venko Filipce.

He pointed out that the previous measures were discussed at the Government session.

- I am aware that these are one of the most difficult measures because they touch on an area in which we have not had measures so far, and that is labor relations, workplace, but we concluded that we need to further research and see if there will be any similar measures that they will not be so serious, they will endanger someone's job and on the other hand they will be an incentive for vaccination and in that sense we worked intensively, said Filipce answering journalists' questions after the statement in front of the Emergency Clinical Center.

Regarding the new strain, he emphasized, it is still too early to say for sure, it is a new mutation of the "Omicron" virus which has numerous mutations especially in the spike part and now there is a suspicion that it may be more transmissible than all previous mutations.

- However, we had many other mutations that have not spread so far. There were those other scenarios - the delta strain that really spread everywhere. We will discuss all these matters on Monday at a meeting of the Commission for Infectious Diseases, announced Filipce.

Source: MIA

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