Internist Hana Šafaříková and orthopedist Michal Vlk treat patients with covid-19 at the Cologne hospital. But the two – like tens of thousands of other medics – have not yet received the promised rewards for the first wave of the epidemic.
“Money is always good. But on the other hand, in the first place it is not, it is a task to take care of sick patients, “says Vlk. Šafaříková agrees with him. “If it were, it would be nice, nice, of course, but the main purpose of our work is to take care of our patients so that they recover.”
Doctors and nurses will receive state rewards in the amount of 75 thousand crowns for the first wave, which was in the Czech Republic in the spring, in November – in the payment for October. “It’s really late here and we can only apologize for that,” adds the Minister of Health Roman Prymula (for YES).
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The ministry is counting on rewards for the second wave as well. At the same time, it promises to increase basic salaries in state hospitals by ten percent next year. “There is a pillow here, and if the super-gross wage is abolished, the health workers should really go up quite significantly. Rewards, they should be extra, “states Prymula.
Enough money is available to healthcare
Healthcare has enough money for better evaluation of health professionals and for the best possible treatment of patients. At the end of September, insurance companies had account surpluses of over 64 billion. That’s six and a half billion more than a year ago. And also the most in Czech history.
“I would like to reassure colleagues in hospitals that really our basic goal is to keep the financing of acute inpatient care and the entire healthcare system stable,” emphasized Zdeněk Kabátek, director of Všeobecná zdravotní pojišťovna.
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