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At the moment, Serbia lacks about 2,300 doctors and 8,500 nurses, representing about 12 percent of health workers. Many of them were in the records of the National Employment Service even before the proclamation of the Kovid 19 epidemic. At least that is what Dr. Rade Panić, anesthesiologist and president of the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists, states, and emphasizes that At this time, due to the general situation in the country, there should be no health workers in the Serbian labor offices, which is unfortunately not the case.
– Even with the announcement of the epidemic, the first move of the state, in this case the Minister of Health, should have been the hiring of all available health workers from the labor office, which did not happen, so now we are where we are. Today, when the doctors in the office are partially employed, we find ourselves in a situation where most of the existing staff are not trained to work in kovid conditions. These doctors cannot do the jobs the situation requires, because they are not prepared for it. However, if they had been admitted on time, even before the epidemic, because we still lacked doctors, and what was possible thanks to the current regulations on the closest conditions to carry out health activities, today everything would be different – believes the president of the Union of Physicians and Pharmacists.
Although the National Service does not answer the question of how many unemployed nurses, doctors, epidemiologists, infectologists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists and radiologists there are at the moment, Dr. Panić reminds that all of them could be admitted, first medical attention must to dismiss to workers who are not needed by the system.
– I am referring to all those non-medical workers who do not even have a systematic job, trade unionists who do nothing and receive salaries to represent these unions. We have about 138,000 employees in health and social protection in the country, of which about 104,000 are only in health. Of that number, we have 19,500 physicians and we are still about 12 percent short of staff, recalls Dr. Panic.
As an anesthesiologist, he draws attention to the chronic shortage of anesthesiologists, which is best reflected in the recently announced competition of the Serbian Clinical Center to recruit health workers for a certain period of time. The contest required 252 doctors, as well as 15 pharmacists and up to 1,010 health workers with higher and secondary education, of which 878 were nurses. For the needs of KCS, that is, the covid-hospital in Batajnica, 252 medical doctors were sought, most of them anesthesiologists, for whom up to 80 jobs were created.
The president of the Union of Physicians and Pharmacists recalls that precisely due to the chronic shortage of specialists, the state had to hire general practitioners in this contest, mostly for the position of specialists.
– Thus, for example, 80 anesthesiologists were asked in the contest, and only one was on the list of 65 admitted. Everything else is medical. The problem is that there is no anesthesiologist, not only in our country, but also in the world, so it was necessary to work to solve these types of problems much earlier. Medical care must be planned at least ten years in advance. Physician shortages are evident in other branches of medicine as well, and the 114 specialist physicians who landed a job this year through the NES have mostly completed voluntary specializations. They do not have a single day of registered specialized experience, which is now a problem due to the pandemic, our interlocutor reminds us.
As one of the ways to easily overcome the shortage of medical personnel, the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists proposes the recruitment of students of fifth and sixth year of medicine. They could work in call centers, advise patients on home treatment, fill out epidemiological questionnaires and, most importantly, record contacts with those infected.
– This way they would carry out the part of the work that is now on the shoulders of the doctors, who no longer even have time to count the patients they examine daily – says Dr. Rade Panić.
Zoran Savić, President of the Serbian Health and Welfare Employees Union, also confirmed that we are short of doctors at the recent conference “Work and employment: what awaits us in 2021”, when he said that this year a little more than 4,000 new health workers. , mainly nurses and technicians, and then doctors.
– From what I think, not enough people came to fill the jobs in the Batajnica and Krusevac covid hospitals – Savic remarked, which is logical, since those professions were scarce even before the epidemic began. Statistics warn that several medical profiles are missing throughout the system, which is why immunologists, allergists, oncologists, otolaryngologists, specialists in clinical biochemistry and hygiene, pediatric and cardiovascular surgeons, nephrologists, endocrinologists were not on the NES records in February of this year. there were only two equally sought-after epidemiologists.
This year, 114 specialists got jobs
During this year, employers showed the greatest interest in hiring nurses and technicians, nurses, doctors, specialists, medical doctors … At the request of the Serbian Clinical Center, this November, 878 nurses and technicians were mediated for hospital in Batajnica. During this year, at the end of November, 9,517 physicians obtained jobs through the NES, a maximum of 5,747 medical, physiotherapeutic, gynecological, pediatric nurses with secondary education, then 1,656 professional nurses, radiologists, physiotherapists with higher education. A total of 2,000 doctors work, of which 114 are specialist doctors (pediatricians, internists, anesthesiologists, radiodiagnostics).
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