The trade union organization of the Meljine General Hospital requested a meeting with the Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, saying that the least the state can do is to provide a social program, reorganize the institution, retrain and retire workers with the payment of contributions and the severance pay that follows them in that case.
In the letter to Abazović, which "Vijesti" had access to, it is written that the employees came to the conclusion with the offered solution that the hospital in Meljine is reduced to one department - internal, which should receive all emergency patients from the territory of Herceg Novi and its surroundings.
"The surgical department is reduced to an outpatient clinic, which eliminates the adequate provision of health services in the event of an emergency. The maternity ward is intended only for emergency births, so the question arises, if it is possible to do an emergency birth, why can't a planned birth be done as well. Is the saving of funds that would be set aside for the 59 workers who will lose their jobs with this plan worth so much that the lives of citizens are at risk and the hospital is reduced to an inpatient facility...", states the letter of the employees who signed Slavica Drobnjak.
Among other things, the workers told the prime minister in a letter dated January 30 that they have not yet received their December salary, and that there is no hot water in the hospital, while the last supplies of reagents are being used up in the laboratory.
"The least that can be done is a social program, according to which the workers could be somewhat provided for, that is, reorganization of the institution, retraining and retirement with the payment of contributions and severance pay that follow them in that case. Please receive the representatives of the employees of the Meljine General Hospital as soon as possible, so that we can have a conversation and find the best solution regarding the work of the Meljine Hospital", concluded the employees in the letter.
Director of the Meljine Hospital, dr Olivera Elez, Ph.D Ljubinka Krivokapić and others Slobodan Bulatović, today will continue discussions with representatives of the Ministry of Health regarding the status of the institution and employees...
Elez said yesterday that she pointed out all the problems of the Hospital and that a new meeting was scheduled for today with the representatives of the Ministry, as well as the director of the Kotor hospital, within which the new hospital should also operate in the coming period. Davor Kumburović.
Petition to save the Institute
The Parliamentary Committee for Health, Labor and Social Welfare published yesterday an online petition to save the Simo Milošević Institute in Igalo, which was initiated by the president of the trade union of that institution, Marija Obradović.
"Will decades of carelessness lead to the shutdown of one of the biggest brands in Montenegro? Is privatization the only solution? The salvation of the Igalo Institute is a pledge for the future of all citizens of Montenegro. That's why we ask you to help us in our fight, by signing the electronic petition. Time is short, and we need 6.000 to 7.000 signatures for our request to be considered in the Assembly," the petition states.
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