KDI, branch of Transparency International in Kosovo, calls SHSKUK to not apply discriminatory requirements in job vacancies. On March 2016, Service of the University Clinical Hospital of Kosovo (SHSKUK) has announced a job vacancy for filling 11 positions in the University Clinical Center (QKUK). SHSKUK based the job announcement on the law on budget, which has restricted SHSKUK to accept regular assistants of Faculty of Medicine as specialists, thus discriminating specialists that are not assistants in the Faculty of Medicine. KDI considers that the Assembly during adoption of the Law on Budget has violated specific laws, respectively the Labor Law, Article 5 by discriminating specialist sof respective fields.
At Legal Advice Service for the victims and denouncing corruption in KDI, doctors specialists have requested help, among others demanded the publication of the violation that was done to them. To prepare these specialist, Ministry of Health once had paid specialization for them, and now they are left without a regular job even though our taxes the state has invested in their education.
Majlinda Kurti from KDI, urged from SHSKUK to cancel the vacancy dated in March 2016 and to announce the new one, which will take away from the criteria of being an regular assistant at Faculty of Medicine, to apply for positions presented. By this SHSKUK will allow equal access to all specialist of respective fields, including regular assistants – she said.
Dr. Luljeta Durmishi Maqedonci, internist cardiologist, said that it takes decades to reach the status of a specialist, and now I miss to give my contribution. Simply to get the stethoscope and to make a heart echo.
Also, Dr. Arben Ademi, general surgeon said that discrimination is to be unemployed for years with all the education they have. Around 100 specialists are in the similar situation.
Dr. Fitnete Gashi, internist hematologist said that there is no need to comment the fact that we are unemployed, despite all these years of schooling, and despite the hematology clinic as the only clinic of its kind in Kosovo, has a deficit of medical staff.
KDI does public appeal to the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, the Committee for Budget and Finance, as well as all members of the Assembly, that when revising the budget to provide jobs in QKUK for specialists that can only work in this institution and specialist jobs to other regional hospitals. With this our institutions only apply Article 72, paragraph 7 of the Health Law, which states that all specialists who have completed the education by funding from the Ministry of Health, will be employed at three levels of health under a special program.
Service for Legal Advice for victims and denouncing corruption in KDI apart from the opportunity to meet directly legal officer in her office, there is also free phone line 0800 77 777, where citizens can report cases of corruption, whether as witnesses or victims of these cases. Also another form of reporting is [email protected] email address.