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The government acknowledges the problems in the health system: Urgent intervention is required in the "Doctor's Order"

2024-08-29 08:43:52Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The government acknowledges the problems in the health system: Urgent

In June, the prosecutor's office of Tirana accused managers and doctors of the Oncology hospital at QSUT, who, together with specialists and other persons, had created an abusive scheme of transferring cancer patients to private clinics for profit purposes.

Triggered by the scandal discovered by the prosecution, at the beginning of August the government approved a Normative Act, which aims to strengthen the rules and discipline within the medical profession, with the aim of eliminating conflicts of interest during the exercise of duty.

The changes in the law on the "Physician's Order" aim to regulate the activity of doctors who want to work simultaneously in public and non-public hospitals, but without affecting the professional activity of the former

In the accompanying report, where the urgency of this normative act is argued, an "unsafe" situation is described for patients and doctors and it is accepted that the health service guaranteed to citizens as a fundamental right in the Constitution has not been provided.

The current situation has created immediate problems in the provision of health services to citizens, such as the lack of health personnel during official hours and the postponement of consultation with the doctor.

Urgent intervention is necessary to prevent further damage to the public health service.

Also, the results of the criminal and administrative investigation against the personnel of the Oncology Service have highlighted the problems of not providing medical services and sending patients to non-public structures. This situation requires immediate intervention to prevent speculations and abuses in the provision of health services.'- the accompanying report states.

The data cited in the document refer to 823 businesses that offer various non-public health services, and in these non-public health businesses, doctors of various specialties are employed, who also practice in the public health sector.

From the administered data, it appears that there are a total of 823 businesses that offer various non-public health services. In these non-public health businesses, doctors of various specialties are employed, who also practice their profession in the public health service.

This results in the combination of the service in these two systems, public and non-public, when it is currently unregulated, it undermines the public health service, in favor of the non-public one. Consequently, the regulation of the 16 way of exercising the doctor's profession is necessary in these cases, for the public health service to be efficient in providing its services.

According to the report, it results that the work of doctors in the public and non-public sector without a legal regulation has resulted in a lower quality of health care for public hospital patients.

"Also, we are faced with the existence of a conflict of interest, as doctors have encouraged and may in the future encourage their patients in the public health sector to seek treatment in non-public health structures owned by them and/or where they work for financially benefited.

This approach harms patients who may not have financial opportunities for treatment in these non-public structures and who have not chosen to receive health services in them.
For this reason, according to the report on the normative act, 'the lack of clear rules creates an unsafe environment for patients and for the medical profession as a whole, requiring urgent intervention to protect public interests and the basic rights of citizens.

In this situation, where immediate intervention is necessary, the use of the normative act is essential. For this reason, it turns out that the second criterion, that of "emergency", is fulfilled.

For this reason, it is proposed to regulate this situation, through this normative act with the force of law, to guarantee the highest public interest, that of the life and health of citizens.'/shqiptarja.com


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