The finance ministry on Saturday condemned the deliberate 48-hour strike by medical doctors in public hospitals that’s set to paralyse the well being system subsequent week.
The medical doctors’ union Pasyki stated medical doctors would grasp up their coats at 7.30am on July 2 till 7.30am on July 4, with skeleton workers tending solely to emergencies from casualty or issues from inpatients.
Medical doctors’ unions and state well being providers organisation (Okypy) have been in talks to try to resolve points about medical doctors’ incentives.
The dispute revolves across the medical doctors’ pay. They declare that Okypy has ‘cheated’ on reimbursing them for work carried out in 2023 by arbitrarily decoding an settlement in place that issues remuneration primarily based on an incentives system.
Medical doctors obtain two varieties of incentives – horizontal (given to all) and vertical (primarily based on efficiency). Extra time is a part of the horizontal incentives and the explanation for his or her strike.
“The finance ministry needs to precise its full help to the efforts of the administration of Okypy, for the development and upgrading of public well being providers,” the finance ministry stated on Saturday.
The ministry stated it recognises the necessity for steady growth and adaptation of well being providers to fashionable necessities and considers it essential to proceed the dialogue between all events concerned to seek out compromise options that target higher service to sufferers.
However the ministry known as on the medical doctors to have calls for which might be lifelike to the monetary capabilities of Okypy.
This, they stated can be to “not undermine the power of Okypy to supply prime quality providers in a aggressive atmosphere”.
The ministry stated that any strike motion “can not and shouldn’t be both the answer or the reply to the issues”.
It confused that such actions, “along with the struggling of sufferers, create a local weather of confrontation, which makes it tough to seek out mutual understanding and settlement”.
The ministry known as on the unions to interact constructively in dialogue with the goal of discovering a mutually useful resolution that can make sure the uninterrupted operation of well being providers.
“Safeguarding public well being is a precedence for the federal government and the finance ministry stands able to help any initiative that promotes this goal,” it concluded.
Asserting the strike earlier within the week, unions Pasydy and Pasyki in a joint assertion stated this was the one method ahead after Okypy’s “uncompromising stance”.
In a press launch, the medical doctors’ union Pasyki stated casualty departments may even working with skeleton workers, analyzing sufferers in vital situation or who require rapid consideration.
If the affected person is deemed vital by the ambulance crew, then the affected person will likely be referred to a non-public hospital.
All departments will function with skeleton workers, whereas outpatient chemotherapy and different each day remedies will likely be moved to different suppliers.
