Private trainees will demand unpaid debts to them through strikes and protests

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Doctors who are on private specialization announced that they will stop treating patients at their home clinics and protest in front of the Government if they are not paid the overdue shifts from February and do not receive health insurance, Sitel TV reported.

Over 400 doctors, half of whom specialize, work and are on duty at the Clinic through an open letter requesting help from Prime Minister Kovacevski to get involved in solving their problems with the Health Fund.

- The night shift as well as the daily work is the provision of health services for which the Fund is obliged to pay us through an agreement we have signed. So the first step would be to stop providing health services that would realistically and potentially lead to the collapse of the health system and home clinics, because they would face an acute shortage of doctors. If this is ignored by the Fund and the Government to the detriment of the health of citizens, the next step which as ZLS and with the support of our colleagues is a protest in front of the Government of RSM, said Dr. Alexandra Georgieva, President of the Association of Trainee Doctors.

The Health Fund says that they did not pay the duty of the trainees, it was an obligation of the health institutions where they specialize, and they were assigned annual budgets.

-We contacted the directors of the Clinics and their explanation is that money from the Health Insurance Fund for that item does not arrive, ie unofficially the Fund orally informed the accountants of the Clinics to stop paying the night work, because the Fund will simply not give money for it. item, says Dr. Georgieva, President of ZLS.

In an open letter to the Prime Minister, the trainees point out that this attitude and non-payment for what they did will further increase the exodus of doctors abroad, and some of them would have to terminate the specialization, which costs up to 12.000 euros, which would lead to to lack of medical staff.

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