About 5700 licensed doctors in Kosovo, only 4700 of them are employed in the public sector and the rest are unemployed or in the private sector. Both groups of doctors, employed or not, aim to be included in the labor market in countries outside of Kosovo. The rate of migration of doctors for years now is continuously being considered a disturbing alarm for the country, because this situation of migration of health workers will leave Kosovo without a doctor in medical centers. Kosovo in the next five years will not be able to regenerate any new doctor and medicine will prevail in old age and the quality of medicine will be zero. This is what Pleurat Sejdiu from the Chamber of Doctors declared. He said that doctors are refusing to be employed in the QMFs of their cities because they have no interest in working in current conditions, which is the medical framework.

That doctors are not interested in working in hospitals in Kosovo, not only because of the issue of unsatisfactory salaries, but also because of health insurance and other issues, says the president of the Health Trade Union Federation in Kosovo, Tevide Imeri.

Imeri said that the government has not undertaken anything to meet the demands of doctors and that for this reason the competitions for the admission of doctors are no longer what they used to be.

She said that even if there are open competitions for jobs in hospitals and family medical centers, doctors and nurses do not apply because their goal is to migrate outside of Kosovo.

Likewise, the member of the Health Commission, Bekim Haxhiu from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, emphasized that a solution must be found for the doctors because within three months about 300 medical professionals have left.

Haxhiu said that for stopping the doctors, a choice must be found not to run away./A.Drenica/

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