The government has put forward measures in a bid to improve the dire situation in the public health care system, which the trade union of doctors and dentists (Fides) has welcomed.
The measures were presented by Public Administration Minister Gregor Virant and Health Ministry State Secretary Darko Ziberna at today's assembly of Fides following Tuesday's meeting of disgruntled doctors in Slovenia's main medical institution, UKC.
"I don't think the state can afford to have dissatisfied doctors," Virant said, while Fides president Konrad Kustrin welcomed the planned measures by saying that "there is not a thing here I could not agree with".
Commenting on the demand for higher wages, Virant linked it with better quality of doctors' work. According to him, patients expect better services, punctuality, reliability, and courteous attitude.
"I believe they benefit from this to a large extent, but probably not everywhere," Virant said.
Fides said earlier this week it would insist the ratio between the average salary and the doctor's pay should be one-to-three, while now it was nearing one-to-two, where it stood before the 1996 doctors' strike.
The government measures envisage bonuses for doctors who work better and more, while the best among them would be offered individual contracts, which would entail fixing "clear standards quality and quantity-wise for the work done in the public health system", according to Virant.
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