This type of Sector Collective Agreement (GKU) will not fundamentally change the situation, nor will it stop the outflow of nursing staff, said the president of the Medical Doctors' Union, Milena Popović Samardžić.
According to her, while the public is in a state of panic and rightly asking questions about whether serious shortcomings are occurring in healthcare and whether another young life was lost in Berane due to an oversight or a combination of other circumstances, the Minister of Health is silent, locked in his office, announcing the news that another "shameful GKU" has been signed.
"This kind of GKU will not fundamentally change the situation, nor will it stop the outflow of paramedical staff. Just as it dealt with the WASH program, sanitation conditions and water quality when the tragedy occurred in the Nikšić General Hospital," Popović Samardžić said on Facebook.
She added that citizens are left without answers, and the government is scratching its head.
"The other day at a meeting at the Ministry of Health, Minister Simun asked the directors to reduce waiting lists in orthopedic departments. One of the directors says, 'the doctors are more than willing, it's just that we don't have prostheses. Get the prostheses and the doctors will start working'. The minister replies, 'yes, yes, I know there are no prostheses, but let's reduce these waiting lists'. It remains unclear how waiting lists can be reduced without prostheses... All potential ideas are brutal," Popović Samardžić concluded.
The Ministry of Health announced earlier today that the relevant Minister Vojislav Šimun, the representative of the Independent Health Trade Union, Mira Šolović, and the President of the Health Employees' Union of Montenegro, Nebojša Radonjić, signed the Sectoral Collective Agreement (GKU) for the health sector, which will come into effect on January 1, 2026.
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