Two and a half months ago, the health authorities announced the control of the additional work of health workers, but to this day it is not known what was determined, whether anyone was sanctioned and how many doctors of state institutions can work in the private sector.
The Ministry of Health did not respond to Vijesti's questions regarding the control, while the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) said that they issue consent for additional work in accordance with the orders of the Government Department. They pointed out that they "certainly take care that consent is not given to employees of organizational units that have waiting lists".
"After we update the data on the number of consents issued for the performance of supplementary work in private health institutions, we will deliver the same to you," the KCCG wrote in the reply.
From the Ministry, which he manages Dragoslav Šcekić, at the beginning of July announced that in cooperation with the Health Insurance Fund (FZO) they will control whether the health care quality control commissions comply with the provisions of the Rulebook, but also that they will call to account the managements of health institutions that grant the right to overtime work to their employees. This was announced after, as they claim, they noticed the increasingly frequent occurrence of paid marketing from private institutions, where doctors from public health promote their services.
The FZO did not answer to "Vijesta" whether the commissions of that institution controlled compliance with the Rulebook on supplementary work, what was determined, whether and who was sanctioned.
"We are witnessing a significant increase in the salaries of healthcare workers, which they deserve. Also, we are witnessing the increasingly common practice that precisely those doctors who are invested in by the state, participate daily in the promotion of personal engagement in private health institutions and in this way direct patients to go to private surgeries and clinics for services they can get in the public health system. ", said two and a half months ago from the Ministry of Health.
Director of KCCG Ljiljana Radulovic she said last week, as a guest on TV Vijesti, that in that institution the longest wait is for specialist examinations by endocrinologists and rheumatologists, and then for radiology examinations.
However, speaking about the reasons for long waiting lists, she mentioned the problem of patients not coming to appointments.
"There is considerable negligence when an examination should be cancelled," said Radulović.
According to data from the KCCG website, the first available appointments for a cardiologist's examination are November 4, a gastroenterologist on December 12, and a psychiatrist on December 7.
The magnetic resonance examination can only be done in November or December.
The Ministry of Health has clarified on several occasions that the 2017 Rulebook on closer conditions for performing supplementary work clearly prescribes the conditions under which a health worker can work supplementary in private institutions.
On August 25, this department again announced that they had initiated the control of supplementary work.
They said that they asked the health institutions to submit registers of written consents for the performance of supplementary work, which they are obliged to keep in accordance with the Rulebook.
The Ministry of Health said last month that their intention is not to dispute the right of doctors to additional work, but that, above all, the needs of the parent institutions where they work and fulfill their work tasks must be taken into account in accordance with regulations and medical ethics. They said again that they decided to take that step because of the long wait for specialist examinations and diagnostics in public institutions, while the same services from the same doctors are offered to them in a much shorter time at private institutions.
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