Il governo slovacco obbliga i medici a lavorare. Chi si rifiuta rischia una pena detentiva di un anno. Dodici distretti saranno interessati dall’emergenza.

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    1. > 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.

    2. DrMattrix on

      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?

    3. 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

    4. The_Glitter_man on

      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)

    5. Any_Strain7020 on

      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?

    6. Pesholinkec on

      Well for diagnosis AI will replace them quickly, so less doctors?

    7. Mychatismuted on

      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

    8. doctor_morris on

      Lots of countries are quite happy to hire foreign doctors, or “slaves” as they are under these rules.

    9. toucheqt on

      Thank you Slovakia for trying to solve doctor shortage in Czechia.

    10. FreeSun1963 on

      Doctors can easily find work abroad so not the solution the goverment envisions.

    11. Wait! What does that even mean?!

      Do doctors in Slovakia graduate and do nothing with their degrees? Or is this more about working overtime?

    12. Galileominotaurlazer on

      Kamil needs to be jailed for crimes against humanity then.

    13. neverendingplush93 on

      And the prison sentence doesn’t change their situation so………

    14. KernunQc7 on

      “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.

    15. maxis2bored on

      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….?

    16. bruhbelacc on

      So basically, they want slavery. “Healthcare is a right” means that you believe in slavery.

    17. BlackberryOdd4168 on

      European Court of Human Rights has entered the chat

    18. eggpoowee on

      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

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