Co-financed private specialists announced a protest for Monday (November 18) in front of the Ministry of Health to demand a higher salary and because their specializations do not fit into the Health Care Law. The protest announcement says their salary is as much as the average salary in the state, which is lower than the minimum wage of a 360-credit general medicine.

Even though we receive lower salaries from our colleagues who have no obligation to the state (neither to work in a particular institution, nor to repay enormous amounts of money to the state), we do pay certain part of our specialization co-payments ourselves and the years we have to work for the institution is the same as the state specialist, the finances we have to repay are higher than the state specialists, organizers say.

In addition, they note that some of them have not been paid travel expenses and duty costs. They will demand transformation of their fixed-term contract to indefinite and solutions to problems as soon as possible.