Slovakia govt to force doctors to work. Those who refuse face a one-year prison sentence – Twelve districts will be affected by the emergency.
https://domov.sme.sk/c/23421640/mimoriadna-udalost-miesto-nudzoveho-stavu-sasko-chce-prinut-lekarov-pracovat.html
by GPwat
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> BRATISLAVA. Health Minister Kamil Šaško is getting tougher. He wants to avert mass dismissals of doctors by using forced labour. If a doctor refuses to work, he faces imprisonment for one year.
> As many as 3,400 doctors who are currently on notice could leave hospitals at the end of the year. Although negotiations are still ongoing, no compromise can be found.
> As Prime Minister Robert Fico leaves for Brazil on Sunday, the government held an emergency meeting on Sunday because of the situation in the health sector.
> At Šaška’s suggestion, it agreed to introduce a new type of emergency, which is the critical unavailability of inpatient healthcare.
> Thus, the government could now prevent doctors from leaving hospitals by declaring an emergency.
> It could have already resorted to a state of emergency. However, Šaško believes that the institution of an emergency situation is more targeted and effective. They plan to declare it only in twelve districts. He did not specify in which ones.
> The state of emergency can be declared for 60 days with the possibility of a one-off extension.
> While the state of emergency carries a penalty of two years imprisonment for violation, the emergency situation carries a lighter penalty of one year.
> Šaško hopes that such a scenario will not occur and that the doctors will eventually withdraw the terminations.
> According to the health minister, several constitutional lawyers also worked on the bill. The explanatory memorandum argues that mass dismissals of doctors will lead to potential threats to people’s lives and health, and thus to threats to fundamental human rights. And the protection of life and health, according to the proposal, is more than a temporary restriction on the right to freely choose employment and perform work.
> Slovakia has already experienced a mass exodus of doctors from hospitals. It happened at the end of 2011, when 1 200 doctors resigned under Radič’s government. The then health minister Ivan Uhliarik failed to reach an agreement with the doctors and the government declared a state of emergency.
> The emergency also concerned only fifteen inpatient healthcare providers. However, the doctors circumvented it by putting hundreds of them on sick leave. Now, the Fico government is counting on such a scenario in the event of an emergency.
> District authorities will designate doctors who will be the only ones authorised to decide on the temporary incapacity for work of medical staff during an emergency situation.
> In 2011, doctors from the Czech Republic had to come to Slovak hospitals to help out. In the end, the government reached an agreement with the doctors and the state of emergency lasted just under two weeks.
> The government’s draft law will have to be approved by the parliament in an abbreviated legislative procedure. The coalition currently has only a narrow majority of 76 MPs. The three MPs around Rudolf Huliak are not yet voting with the coalition.
Oh wow, they’re preparing the next shortage – who will start studying medicine with this burden? Are they going to force people to study next?
This has disaster written all over it.
Yea forcing doctors to work, under the threat of prison is definitely going to make them feel valued and definitely not make them work abroad
This is what the USSR would have done.
Forced labor is back on the menu boys. Take your Slaveoskian or whatever we call them theses days and get them back to the field of work!
(This is a joke, don’t take it seriously)
Can someone from the region explain what the story behind the 3,400 resignations is?
That sounds like a protest movement, more than the habitual brain drain?
Is this the result of failed union negotiations?
Well for diagnosis AI will replace them quickly, so less doctors?
How do you force someone doing intellectual job to work…. If I was forced to work against my will I would just sit in front of the screen reading stuff instead of working… these doctors will have a very low productivity
Lots of countries are quite happy to hire foreign doctors, or “slaves” as they are under these rules.
Thank you Slovakia for trying to solve doctor shortage in Czechia.
Doctors can easily find work abroad so not the solution the goverment envisions.
Wait! What does that even mean?!
Do doctors in Slovakia graduate and do nothing with their degrees? Or is this more about working overtime?
We can always use more doctors in Poland, just saying.
So, slavery?
Kamil needs to be jailed for crimes against humanity then.
And the prison sentence doesn’t change their situation so………
“He wants to avert mass dismissals of doctors by using forced labour. If a doctor refuses to work, he faces imprisonment for one year.”
Absolutely insane. If I was a SK medical professional, I’d start looking for the exit, now, not later. Doesn’t matter what is decided or if they go back on it and drop the proposal.
Honest question here: instead of forced work, why don’t they just incentivise them by offering a more competitive salary? Let the market sort it self out? Particularly Ploes and Czechs would be right over.
After all, that’s why doctors are leaving, right….?
So basically, they want slavery. “Healthcare is a right” means that you believe in slavery.
Is slavery allowed in the EU?
European Court of Human Rights has entered the chat
And if all of these doctors all stood together and refused out of principle, then got thrown into jail, the country would be even more screwed
This is why governments hate unions, strength in numbers
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Got to love to see that mass immigration to the Czech Republic….. This country is going to hell and is gonna become a black hole of Europe again……
Reseting elections in Romania, imprisoning people who do not want to work as doctors, western democracies are on the roll. Russia bad.
It is almost like letting out a bunch of criminals and destroying the economy and the justice system makes people not want to live and work here…
Such a government are in dire need of psychiatrist so I understand this move
Is Slovakia getting Resident Evil’d? Why do I never get news from the Balkans until a pandemic is already global or some shit?
Here in Romania we would like to work, but the goverment does not open new jobs, so most of us have to emmigrate
Technically one can create s.r.o. (llc) and employ every doctor… they technically will have work and the law is pointless 😉
Insane to believe this will help anyone…
Come to Germany, we also need medical personnel like crazy but you’ll get good pay and won’t have to go to prison! Maybe the slovak gov should work with incentives to study medicine rather than going medieval on the doctors they already have but only time will tell.
Full translated article plz.
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