We have turned healthcare into a market, hospitals into commercial companies, and doctors into traders. This is not found anywhere else in the world. There is public and private healthcare, but in our country everything is about money. They said that this way both doctors and patients would be happy, but the exact opposite happened. Many people do not have any access to healthcare, we have no prevention, and we detect patients with socially significant diseases too late, when they pay the highest price. This was commented on by former Minister of Health Dr. Mimi Vitkova to Eurocom.
The disparities in salaries in the healthcare system are colossal. Since there are doctors with salaries of 30-40 thousand leva, why will the residents get 1000 leva? As long as this commercial bias continues, these disparities will not disappear. I fully support my fellow residents. How can these people treat, how can they live, how can they have families and raise their children, she commented.
These problems are not from yesterday or today. They have been around for years. How can a commercial company be allowed to distribute its profits as it wants, and the state fills the gaps? This is nowhere to be found. The state has abdicated everywhere - there are no regulations, the health system is bloodless. There are no people in small municipal hospitals because of the low salaries, commented Dr. Vitkova.
When the Covid epidemic came, who were the first to enter the hospitals to treat - the young residents. Back then, we were interested in these people because there was a need, but now no one is interested in them anymore. So the young people are right to protest, but they will not achieve the effect, as with the transport workers, because they cannot block the capital. This is unacceptable in healthcare, she commented.
The same is true for nurses, who have been working on minimum wages for decades. It is normal for them to protest and flee abroad, she pointed out.