The recently appointed director of the General Hospital in Nikšić, dr Zoran Mrkic claims that as soon as he was appointed to that position and began to restore order, problems arose, the latest in the case of a nurse Ivan Raičević which is why the police also had to react. On the other side, the nurse's husband Danilo Raičević she claims that she is the mother of three minor children, transferred to another ward and another workplace as a shift nurse, which includes night work and 12-hour shifts, and that she is neither healthy nor physically able to do it about mobbing.
The epilogue of everything is that Raičević took a sick leave, and Mrkić said that he will continue to work "neither according to his grandmother, nor according to his uncles" but according to the law, all with the aim of keeping the patients satisfied.
"Ivana has been working in the internal department for ten years. A new director came and automatically moved her to another department, from eight-hour to twelve-hour working hours. She came to work in the morning, accompanied the patient to Podgorica, and when she returned, she was told that she would immediately start night work at the neurology department, without any papers or explanations. It's pure mobbing. "Because of my displeasure, they told her not to work in the evening, but to come in the morning for the first shift," claims Raičević.
According to him, his wife called him two days ago visibly upset and told him through tears that the new medical technician "ordered her to work the night shift, after the day shift".
"While she is at work, I raise three minor children by myself. I have been at the Labor Bureau for 29 years. When she called me and told me to come to defend her from the thugs, director Mrkić and the technicians, I picked up the children and came, because I have no one to leave them with. I wanted to talk to the director, but he immediately called the police. If I had come to fight, I wouldn't have taken the children."
In the presence of the police, he spoke with director Mrkić, asking for an explanation as to why his wife was transferred to twelve-hour working hours and to another department.
"The director boldly, arrogantly, said that he has the legal right to do so. I am asking that if he has the legal right, does he have the moral, human right, to move the mother of three children, aged three, four and five, from eight-hour to twelve-hour working hours and to the ward where the most seriously ill patients are, to neurology. My wife weighs 47 kilograms. How she will move those seriously ill patients is about them," said Raičević, who came to the front of the hospital yesterday morning with the intention of talking to the director.
This did not happen and after the police warned him that he should not stand in front of the hospital, he was taken to the Security Center for an informational interview as a citizen.
"Since he stated the previous day that he brought the children as a shield and that he was going to call the social services, 'now I came alone, without a shield to talk to him. He's looking for a shield, the police. All I'm asking is for my wife to go back to working eight hours and to talk to him like a human being, without the police. They forced her to sign the annex to the contract, and in that agony she doesn't know what she signed.''
Due to, as he claims, the shock suffered and the sick child, his wife took sick leave.
As Director Mrkić told reporters, Ivana Raičević was informed on November 26 that due to the needs of the "process and organization of work, in an emergency" she was assigned to perform shift work in the department of neurology.
"The appointee did not comply with the request of her superiors and on her own initiative continued to perform her work the next day at the same place and time as in the previous days. When, on November 27, in accordance with the Labor Law, we handed her a written decision on emergency deployment to work as a shift nurse in the department of neurology, we were informed that she had worked that day, that she was tired, hungry and not it can work, which we immediately accepted and extended so that the start of work would be the next day", claims Mrkić.
According to him, he was informed that the nurse's father, husband and three minor children were waiting for him at the office, so he called the police to offer assistance to the Center for Social Work, because "conversations that, I assume, have a certain tension, are not for children of that age ".
"That intervention meant that they were witnesses to our behavior - both what is humane and what is legal. We listened to the inconveniences expressed by the husband of our nurse and instructed them that if they are dissatisfied with the decisions, actions or have doubts about the validity of everything we proposed, they can seek a legal remedy".
As he pointed out, everyone who wants to can check whether they acted in accordance with the law. He showed the journalists a list of employees in the internal department where a certain number of workers took sick leave, and some nurses work four hours each, so Ivana Raičević, as he pointed out, was the optimal solution for the job of a shift nurse in the neurology department.
"I appeal to all our fellow citizens who have employees in this hospital to refrain from family intimacy and situations like this. I think that children should not be abused for such purposes. If there is something that burdens the family in question, our worker, it is all presented with papers", said Mrkić.
He pointed out that this situation is a legacy of ancient times, which did not crystallize even after the change of government, and these are bad habits.
"We have a difficult situation, that people struggle for work, that they are employed through various connections and methods. All of them are healthy, capable, have the best schools, but the moment they sign the contract, the only thing the employer asks of them is to fulfill that contract. Due to the patients who are seriously ill in the wards where Raičević worked, and where she will work now, I am obliged to give them the maximum, her dedication and work, as well as everyone else's, and not any benefit due to some family relationship that may have previously and won, so people got used to it. This is our attempt to do an indiscriminate justice. There will be things like this, but we have to put an end to it and we have to face it once. "Extremely large concessions can also be considered corruption," said Mrkić.
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