There are about 5700 licensed doctors in Kosovo, only 4700 of them are employed in the public sector and the rest are unemployed, or are 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 doctors in medical centers. Kosovo in the next five years will not be able to have any new doctor, and in medicine, advanced age will prevail, and the quality of medicine will be zero. This is what Pleurat Sejdiu from the Kosovo Doctors Chamber declared. He said that doctors are refusing to be employed in the MFMCs 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 Trade Union Health Federation of 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 Committee on Health, 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 Kosovo.
Haxhiu said that in order to stop the doctors from leaving, a solution must be found.
