Children, students, pregnant women and pensioners will no longer have free dental health care as of today, it was announced today at a protest by dentists in front of the Health Insurance Fund.
The President of the Dental Chamber, Jelena Bulajić, said that the Fund offered them contracts that were identical to the previous ones, which showed the state's greatest lack of concern for the dental health of its citizens. Therefore, she explained, for now, about half of the dentists who had contracts with the Fund to provide services to insured persons will not sign new ones.
"The Fund's carelessness and ignorance when it comes to providing dental health care is best illustrated through contracts that are typically drawn up without considering real possibilities, so in Zeta there is only one dentist for every 17.000 inhabitants. The contract prescribes readiness, while the law states that it can last up to 10 days at most, so the question arises as to what happens to the remaining 20 days...", said Bulajić.
She also said that paying for readiness by law means that you have to pay for the time from the moment the call is received to the moment the intervention is completed, and that the Fund's current price list does not include prices for readiness, or emergencies.
Bulajić pointed out that dentists were offered miserable compensation and were asked to work for free, so that it could be said that the state has free dental health care.
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