VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Zoran Kocevski accused the management of the Kocani hospital of workplace harassment of employees who refused to actively take part in the SDSM campaign in the city. SDSM lost the mayoral race in Kocani in the narrowest election in the country, that came down to a dozen votes. SDSM officials in the city demanded that each hospital employee vouches that 20 other people will vote for SDSM, and brings their signatures.

After the, the hospital director began to reassign employees who did not comply with the order to work for SDSM. This includes doctors and nurses, Kocevski said.

He also shared statements from hospital employees, who say that the facility is left without heating while employees are forced to open windows to reduce the threat of Covid infection.