Medical trade union: If consolidation package is okayed, doctors will start resigning

If the draft consolidation measures are approved by Parliament, the Medical Trade Union will start collecting doctors' resignation notices, said its chairman Peter Visolajsky in response to the fact that the consolidation package was moved to its second reading on Thursday (September 26).
According to Visolajsky, the vote and fast-tracked legislative procedure on the consolidation package, which ignored warnings from doctors and nurses, is a betrayal of health-care professionals and patients.

The proposed consolidation measures in the health-care sector entail slowing down increases in health-care workers' salaries in both the outpatient and hospital sectors to 3 percent for one year as well as the transformation of state hospitals into joint-stock companies. Both health-care organisations and the opposition have criticised the measures.

Source: TASR