Doctors who are employed at the University Clinical Centre in Sarajevo (UKCS) most likely will not be able to perform the dual practice, working both for the hospital and in their private practice, in the upcoming period.
“We just have to somehow regulate that private practices. State Hospital practically serves as the flow for private practice. We have to solve this enormous waiting lists of patients and try to bring health care to a level that would essentially fit to all of the patients, and not only those who can pay for certain services,” said the Vice President of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly Jasenko Tufekcic.
Health care reform, according to this initiative, should start from the federal level, and then further to cantons.
“We will make a comprehensive spectrum of harmonization. Objectively, we all think that our health care is sinking. This has to stop, because in a few years we will not have the service that expect an ordinary patient expects,” said Tufekcic.
“We’ll try to work together and make the results. I expect that we will have the support of medical workers. People want reforms. Physicians should be on service to the patients, and not to just look how to take their money,” concluded Tufekcic.
According to unofficial information, almost 250 doctors on the UKCS is working both in the clinic and in their private practices.
New legal regulations would give them a choice: to work for the state clinic or private practice.
(Source: A. Dzano/Klix.ba)
