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The chances of harassing, abusing and blackmailing you as a doctor in the Serbian healthcare system are truly enormous, says Dr. Rade Panic, president of the Union of Serbian Physicians and Pharmacists (SLFS), in an attempt to summarize the previous six months of the coronavirus epidemic in our country. front line: doctors and health workers.
Serbian healthcare has been decimated by the coronavirus epidemic – at the beginning we lacked 15% of doctors and medical staff, which is a consequence of layoffs of at least six years – dentists, nurses and technicians, retirements and abroad without jobs suitable for new – median age of doctors is 55, Panic said Nova.rs.
He added that non-medical workers were detained.
And not hygienists, nurses, cooks who work with patients and participate in the care and care process, but economists and lawyers. Today in the hospitals painters have been hired, reinforcers who have nothing to do. We also have a physical teacher who works through connections in a clinical center in a city to – do physical medicine with children !? That 15 percent worker shortage was something that put us in an awkward position in this epidemic beforehand. It’s a problem at regular work, and that was just a particular problem in the epidemic, “he said.
We welcomed the official start of the epidemic with an absolute lack of protection team and directors who were not prepared and trained to organize the work of the health service, he added.
“It is said that there is no emergency in an epidemic, that means that a patient cannot be approached without protective equipment during the epidemic. And not for his protection, but for the safety of subsequent patients, when the doctor is a vector potential that can infect new patients. After all, this is a criminal offense, so health workers are required to receive vaccines since 2002. The Ministry does not implement it either, and to work in a health institution, you must be immunized so that they do not get sick and “The patient must be protected first,” explains Panic.
The clinic directors forbade the employees to protect themselves
“At the beginning of the epidemic, we had written evidence that employees were prohibited from wearing and wearing even what they had in protective gear. In the case of the ‘Laza Lazerević’ clinic, a colleague bought a mask and took it to workHe wanted to use it, but the director forbade it, he punished him. He was deducted from his salary for wearing protective equipment at his workplace, which he bought himself. They went so far against the health and safety of healthcare workers that they forbade us to equip ourselves, ”says Panic.
The lack of protective gear, which, as he says, Predrag Kon finally admitted, was great.
“To quote Professor Radovanović, we were surprised by an epidemic with the amount of protective equipment that all of Yugoslavia used to spend on a civil protection exercise. There was absolutely no protective equipment, except at KBC ‘Dragiša Mišović’, where this equipment it was from start to finish, maybe not complete, but this is understandable, because there was a widespread shortage in the market The obligation of the Minister of Health, according to the Law on Protection against Infectious Diseases, was to recognize the danger in December 2019 and predict by March how much protective equipment is needed “It was not done, because obviously they were preparing for the elections and had a lot of work to do,” said Panic.
And he adds, someone at the crisis headquarters, and they have a whole team of 20 people where the PRs are, failed to warn them that it is not good when confidence is lost in an epidemic.
And that it is absolutely contraindicated to lie to the public, and especially to lie to health workers. They instilled in us fear and uncertainty about what will happen if this situation repeats itself. Because, be careful, there will surely be an increase in new cases and we come to that situation. in the opportunity that we cannot defend ourselves. A new problem has been created, with no solution, ”he said.
A large number of infected doctors.
“We had a large number of infected healthcare workers, and more than 30 deceased doctors and dentists. Two of them were retired (one of them was working in retirement). Certainly 25 of the deceased were directly related to the infection in the work and, consequently, they are deceased of kovida “, affirms Panić.
He also says that the seat of the crisis is not justified in relation to Italy and other countries.
“And they forget that the coronavirus came to our country after Italy, Spain, China, that we had enough time to prepare and that we would not have so many infected and deceased. We could not correct how many deceased nurses and technicians of the kovida-19 there were,” he added. “That figure is probably even higher. We are sure that the highest number of 750 infected healthcare workers is actually three to five times higher. We know that, because of the organization of the work of the medical service, no one could go on vacation during a long time, “Nova said. rs.
The number of patients grows again
Now the number of new patients is starting again in higher numbers, says Panić.
“The eventual new introduction of a state of emergency can only be a justification for the legal transfer of doctors from one institution to another. Because, if there is no state of emergency, there is no obligation to work, then you can never move without having voluntarily accepted it. . The list of volunteers of 14 doctors left only my signature, because I insist on going to the kovid unit to see how the data is made and made public, other colleagues are furious, how they were treated, not a few got sick and will not volunteer as volunteers and they are waiting to be given a written job, “he explains.
And the obligation to work, he explains, can only be introduced in a state of emergency.
“And that is not regulated by the health law, but by the Army Law. And that is very questionable, because the labor obligation refers to companies and people who are not in the health system. Some called me to advocate for the return of the state of emergency “. No, I am not advocating, but I am saying that only during a state of emergency is it possible to work and relocate medical personnel, and that does not mean that measures should be implemented to lock up citizens and force retirees to buy bread at 4 in the morning. Inability of the State, harassment of citizens to instill fear in them, and then they follow the principle: Shut up, it can be worse, ”said Panic.
Threat of dismissal by “Unidos contra Kovid”
The president of the doctors and pharmacists union also says that “there is currently an intricate situation in which an attempt is made to belittle or disavow the rebellion against the fact that the comrades are being replaced because they signed for ‘Unidos contra kovid'”.
“They have a situation where the mayor conveyed to his colleagues in Uzice that those who signed for ‘Unidos contra kovid’ can no longer be anywhere in the position of chief, nor in the position of mayor, nor in any other position. responsible. We have shifts at Novi Pazar, three colleagues of anesthesiologists at KBC Zvezdara resigned, and before that two neurologists resigned, two at Subotica General Hospital, Ljuština at GAK, Igor Grbić at ‘Laza Lazarević’ … There is one general threat of dismissal at all levels, and you will remember that the biggest problem for the disclosure of information was when Nova.rs journalist Ana Lalic was arrested for writing about KC Vojvodina, when the state tried to centralize the information, so that the headquarters crisis was the only one who could do something Statements about the epidemic, although the law of protection against infectious diseases says that the employee can speak, and I always say that he is obliged to speak about knowledge Hundreds he has where he works, ”emphasized Panic.
And he concludes: “There is a lot of written evidence, from the Institute of Oncology, and since the epidemic began in almost all institutions we have a written document where the director prohibits talking about any topic related to the epidemic – working conditions and patient care during epidemics “.
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