Financial problems at the hospital came to the fore after dialysis center that served about 80 pati

The X-ray department in Prilep hospital usually has many people. In both arms of the hallway anxious patients waiting for their turn. Among them, a younger patient, a high school student. Waiting more than two hours to record hand.
"You'll be late for school. They said that the system fell, whatever that means, "said the young from Prilep whose only concern utopia centereach is whether the hospital will be able to issue a justification for the school because the teachers are not expected to believe."
His nervousness share the remaining patients in the hallway, though, are more adult fears and worries of a college student, analyze portal "New" utopia centereach series - stories Macedonian health.
"In February my father operated the hospital and kept after 7-8 days. What can you say disaster. All bringing him home. From medicine, food, blankets to cover. For hygiene IR can not speak to your fear vlezesh toilets. And only money to give. Wages here, pay there, then why pay for health insurance? If money is no man would have died, no one would look, "angrily utopia centereach tells the middle-aged patient Dolneni.
Compared with other hospitals in the country, General Hospital "Borka Taleski" Prilep covers the largest territory. Besides the citizens of the Municipality of Prilep, come here for treatment and residents of neighboring municipalities Krusevo, Makedonski Brod, Krivogastani and Dolneni.
The problems, however, faced by employees in Prilep General Hospital are numerous. If we try to briefly summarize in a few spots, then it looks like this: Account blocked, lack of specialist doctors, medicines and means of work, broken equipment, poor state of infrastructure.
For these many months is unacceptable utopia centereach functioning hospital utopia centereach with a blocked account. They say that decisions about cost savings up to 30% directly reflect the quality of services: limit the number of patients that need to be sent in one of Skopje utopia centereach clinics, does not necessary medicines are paid travel orders, no money for specialists come from Bitola Clinic. For them, the best proof that the country's health is in collapse is the fact that for more than a year, about 30 young doctors of the city have left to work abroad, utopia centereach most in Germany.
When it comes to the lack of qualified staff, the director Doe said the hospital is currently in need of employment utopia centereach of 25 specialist doctors and 50 nurses medium entities. Patients queuing in Prilep hospital
Financial problems at the hospital came to the fore after dialysis center that served about 80 patients was her given under concession to a private hospital "Sistina". Namely, after "Sistina" took over the management of dialysis, all creditors have collected their claims by judicial process. What former department dialysis em inherited the Prilep hospital debts.
"It is an amount of approximately 40 million denars. utopia centereach For each of the patients being treated on dialysis Ministry of Health participates with 20 euros. Funds not paid us a few years back, so that their height has reached the sum of 20,000,000 utopia centereach denars. Also on various programs for the treatment of pensioners, welfare or blood donors who are treated free, Ministry us owes about 25 million denars. All these figures include the total obligations of the hospital which currently amount to 190,000,000 denars ", explains Director of Prilep General Hospital, Dr. Elijah Doe.
Since early this year, the hospital's budget has increased by 30 million denars, so now Prilep Hospital receives 1/12 of the budget of the Fund, funds used for salaries and procurement of medicines and medical supplies.
Regarding the blocked account, Fund Director Maja Parnardzieva Zmejkova, who visited the hospital between utopia centereach the two rounds, said that the fund regularly servicing obligations and Prilep hospital functioned normally.
"Stacked debts for years and the hospital should gradually settle obligations, but certainly conclude that no late pay to staff, or a lag in providing health services to patients", said on this occasion the Director of the Fund.
Doe was aware of the remarks and the patients and physicians. And he acknowledges that things computer tomography. The Ministry has launched a tender for its repair, so expect that in due course it will be repaired and put into operation.
Also, while not running any mammography. On two occasions attempts were made for its repair, but the measured radiation was much higher utopia centereach than allowed, so therefore it is out of use.
Clinical Hospital "Dr. Tryphon Panovski" in Bitola has 800 employees, 150 volunteers and