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Free healthcare as one of the main promises of Edi Rama since taking the first mandate in 2013, not only remains an unfulfilled promise, but even continues to rob citizens' pockets under the camouflage of providing more services and facilities.
From February 1, in the country's hospitals that have obtained the managerial autonomy card, doctors, if they wish, will be able to offer consultations outside official working hours.
All will be against a fee that citizens will have to pay, of 3000 ALL.
So citizens will be offered a new service in state hospitals, with a fee starting from 3 thousand lek (new) as it can be even more expensive depending on the doctor who offers the service, the same as in private hospitals with the exception of the waiting queue.
From this fee, which is determined by the hospital Board, 70 percent will go to the doctor's pocket and 30 percent to the hospital's needs.
The project will first be piloted in the Memorial Hospital of Fier, which has already won the managerial autonomy card.
The Deputy Minister of Health Mira Rakacolli said that the consultations outside the official schedule will start to be applied first in the hospital of Fier, and then in Shkodër, Lezhë, Durrës and Vlorë.
Rakacolli has revealed that the fee will be 3 thousand ALL.
"It will be 3 thousand new lek. The medical board has agreed," said Rakacolli.
However, this new practice will be entirely voluntary and it will be the doctors themselves who will choose whether to provide overtime service.
This dual work practice of the doctor within the public hospital where he works, is expected to be implemented first in the 5 hospitals that have gained autonomy, such as the "Mother Teresa" University Hospital Center, the regional hospitals of Vlora, Shkodra, Lezha and Durrës. .
"At the moment, the service is offered only for consultations. It is the doctors who will have to choose, because according to the legislation the doctor is allowed, but if they want to provide this service, the hospital provides the infrastructure, as the private clinic wants investment", explained Rakacolli.
The hospital boards will be the ones who will determine the fees based on the individual contracts of the doctors, which means that the doctors who are more in demand will have higher fees.
"We all know that in order to receive consultations in public, there is a referral system according to which people have to wait, because the doctor in the working hours finishes the consultations he has to do and closes the work, and therefore a queue is created. As a citizen, I choose the doctor I want to see me and the dates, I also choose if I want to see him sooner or wait for the service. So since the same doctor offers the consultation outside the referral system, then he can choose against a fee not to wait", explains Rakacolli for Report Tv.
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