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MOSTAR, Mar 16 (FENA) – At the press conference held on Friday in Mostar the Minister of Health, Labor and Social Welfare of the Herzegovina-Neretva Coanton (HNC) Goran Opsenica warned publicly the managers and management structures of health institutions in that Canton about material position of health workers and accumulated debts in hospitals.
The relevant minister wonders how the managers and management structures have failed over the years to allocate part of the funds received from the Canton (grants, loans, transfers) at least symbolically to improve the material status of the employees, instead of making a debt of more than KM 100 million.
Speaking about the demands of the unions of the health care workers, the minister pointed out complexity of the situation, adding that the institutions and their founders were waiting for the problems to be solved by the HNC Government.
As for the number of health institutions in the HNC (12 health centers and 3hospitals) and the number of employees in them (3693), Opsenica holds that the health system is overstaffed and extravagant.
On the occasion, the Minister said that from 2012 to 2018, the Institute for Health Insurance of the HNC had increased its funds by 35% or KM 24 million for financing health institutions, adding that the material rights of employees remained unchanged.
- The consequence of a permanent increase in funds for health care institutions is a mild percentage of the financial plan of 13.8 % for basic rights of insured persons (drug, orthopedic and other aids, out-of-canton treatment and sick leave), which is convincingly the lowest percentage of allocations in the FBiH, Minister Opsenica explained.
Minister underlined that the government was not an employer to doctors, but a party in the negotiations, adding that it had taken over the role.
He underlined that the call to the vocational Union of Doctors and Dentists was open despite their having refused to sign a protocol on negotiations and announced a strike for March 19.
He reiterated that the collective agreement could be concluded as a branch, general, and individual, adding that collective branch agreements for workers in health institutions are concluded by the competent ministries and cantonal governments with the trade union.
To remind, representatives of the HNC Government recently met with representatives of the Trade Union of Doctors and Dentists in the HNC.
They once again pointed out that, through the collective agreement on the rights and obligations of employers and health workers in the HNC, for each category of health care staff, all the elements for salary calculation, as well as other rights and obligations are defined.
The professional trade union of doctors and dentists of the HNC demands from the Government the signing of a separate collective agreement for doctors of medicine and dentistry, as it has been done in other cantons, as well as increase in the hourly rate from the current KM 2 to KM 2.6 and increase of the coefficient by 1.2 for all medical groups - for doctors of medicine, specialists and subspecialists.
Earlier it was announced that if a strike was staged on March 19, doctors would treat only the patients whose lives were endangered and whose permanent condition was threatened by permanent disability.
Oncologic patients and pregnant women will be treated in the regular order, and everything else will be put on hold.
(FENA)
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