In search of better living conditions, more than thirty doctors from Pljevlja have left this area in the last thirty years, so this health institution is currently lacking doctors of various specialties.
The director of the hospital, Zoran Tabaš, recently stated that 23 specialist doctors currently work at the Pljeval hospital, including two subspecialists, a cardiologist and an endocrinologist.
"The unresolved housing policy is the reason why specialist doctors are leaving Pljevlja. When they do the work they were required to do, they leave," said Tabaš.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare previously announced that the main reason for the departure of specialists to other institutions, primarily the Clinical Center, was "the failure to implement a transparent policy by the managers of health institutions, who gave specializations to doctors who were already known in advance not to return to Pljevlja to work.
The ministry announced that doctors' salaries or failure to resolve housing issues are not the reasons why they are leaving, because salaries are calculated according to the same principle in all health institutions in Montenegro.
Due to the lack of staff, the hospital in Pljevlja hires biochemists, ophthalmologists and radiologists from time to time.
The strategy on human resources until 2017 foresees 44 specialists and subspecialists for the Pljeval hospital.
There are currently nine doctors, two gynecologists, an anesthesiologist, a radiologist, an internist, a biochemist, a surgeon, an ophthalmologist and an otorhinolaryngologist on specialization at this health institution. A competition was announced for three more specialties of internal medicine, surgery and eye doctor.
"Since there is a large number of patients with cardiovascular diseases, the hospital needs another cardiologist as well as an endocrinologist, a gastroenterologist, a nephrologist and a rheumatologist. There are two doctors on the nephrologist and gastroenterologist subspecialization. The hospital has two radiologists working in two shifts. "Due to the large influx of patients for CT diagnostics and ultrasound examinations of blood vessels, we hire another radiologist from the Clinical Center of Montenegro once a week," said Tabaš.
According to him, due to the lack of doctors, it is impossible to avoid waiting at some doctors.
"Given that a large number of patients with cardiovascular acute heart diseases require a lot of engagement, both specialists and internists, as well as subspecialists cardiologists and endocrinologists who also work in general internal medicine, waiting cannot be easily avoided. We tried to solve that problem by giving subspecialists the option of additional work, so the wait has recently been reduced. For an examination with an endocrinologist, the wait is a maximum of 15 days. The longest wait at the cardiologist is about a month and a half. "Since the additional work of the cardiologist began, the waiting time for the examination is shorter," said Tabaš.
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