There can be no successful transformation of the health care system without management capacity and managerial staff, because the functionality, economic viability and resilience of the health system are designed based on the lessons learned from global crises.
This was said at the meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister for Labour, Education, Health and Social Policy Srdjan Pavićević and the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Montenegro, Mina Brajović.
The Government of Montenegro announced that the two met for the first time after the formation of the 44th Government.
They emphasized that Brajović congratulated Pavićević on his appointment to the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Labour, Education, Health and Social Policy, stressing that these three areas, seen from the perspective of the WHO, are crucial for the overall well-being of citizens and the well-being of society.
"Health is a prerequisite for any progress, and the situation in key areas of society, i.e. the quality of services provided by the state to citizens, directly reflects on their physical and mental health, work ability and motivation for personal and social progress," said Brajović.
The government pointed out that Pavićević thanked the World Health Organization for its continuous attention and help, emphasizing that Montenegro is lucky that, as he says, this world organization is represented by a person who with extraordinary commitment and expertise follows and reacts to all opportunities and difficulties in the public and private sector. Health of Montenegro.
"On the basis of a natural and long-term partnership, we will continue our successful cooperation with the WHO Office in Montenegro, with the aim of solving the neuralgic points in the Montenegrin health system, as well as the development of complementary services related to education and the social protection system, because these are prerequisites for the recovery and stabilization of the overall social opportunity", said Pavićević.
The Government assessed that the conversation took place in a mutual exchange of information and insights concerning numerous challenges in Montenegrin healthcare: lack of capacity, outflow of doctors from the public health sector, overload of doctors and medical staff, lack of managerial staff and dysfunctional relationship between emergency, primary and tertiary care of health care, which, according to them, dramatically increases the cost of services, burdens the overall health budget and causes irrational consumption of antibiotics, low level of digitization within the entire system and lack of protocols, indicators and databases.
The Government emphasized that Pavićević agreed that without exact and relevant data on the type and method of providing health services, there can be no true transformation of the system.
"Only with significantly higher investments in hospital infrastructure, modern technology and improvement of working conditions can we retain professional staff and create new ones. Doctors are not leaving Montenegro because of low salaries, but because of working conditions, outdated technology and the absence of clear protocols and generally accepted standards," he emphasized. Pavićević.
Brajović reminded of the covid crisis and "lessons learned".
"In Montenegro, but also at the global level, the pandemic pointed out with surgical precision the neuralgic links of the system and revealed a multitude of weaknesses and fragility," said Brajović.
The Government pointed out that the recommendation of the World Health Organization is that a health system should be developed so that it can successfully respond to global crises that threaten to be more frequent than was the case in previous decades.
"The interlocutors were in full agreement that the transformation of Montenegrin public health cannot begin without the development of management capacities and managerial profiles, the adoption of knowledge about crisis management and the formation of a clear vision of the system within which its functionality, economic viability and resilience are projected on the basis of "lessons learned "from global crises, where the emphasis is on commitment, enthusiasm, empathy, ethics of the medical staff and respect for the doctor's call", they concluded in the announcement.
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