Photo: Tanjug / Dušan AničićThe good news is that some health centers have started working 24 hours a day. It is bad, however, that there are not enough doctors in Serbia
The news that health centers start working non-stop, the main man of this department, the minister Zlatibor Lončar he assessed as an important step towards society having better health care.
As it was announced at the time Ministry of Health, the goal is to ensure more efficient functioning of the health system.
Although the news said that all health centers are starting night shifts, this is not exactly the case. Fourteen health centers, mostly in the territory of Belgrade, have introduced night shifts, while all the others have already organized 24-hour duty through the emergency services.
There are 159 health centers in Serbia, and in 2024, 3.547 doctors worked in them, the data Institute for Public Health "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut".
Of that number, 2.018 are general practitioners, 310 are doctors in specialization, and 1.219 are specialists.
According to the calculation of "Batuta", 1.496 patients "go" to one general practitioner.
Smallest number doctor of general practices, there are less than 40 doctors per 100.000 inhabitants in southern and eastern Serbia.
Center for Local Self-Government (CLS) announced recently that, according to the current systematization, 232 doctors are missing in health centers in Belgrade.
According to CLS, there are 141 general practitioners and 91 specialists.
One of the reasons is that the doctor's departure "on his stomach for bread" has become popular. So many medical personnel from Serbia go to European countries where the working conditions are better.
Doctors from Serbia most often leave because of bad attitudes and undue pressure from management towards them, difficult working conditions and heavy obligations given the small number of doctors, Gordana Đokić from the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists said earlier.
"Doctors are leaving Serbia because of the extreme mismatch between work and family life and, of course, because of low salaries," Djokic said earlier.
About 6.000 doctors left Serbia from 2014 to 2024, according to the union's data.
"In the last decade, from 200 to more than 700 doctors leave Serbia every year. On average, more than 550 doctors leave Serbia every year. Our health system lacks a large number of doctors of all profiles," said Godana Đokić from the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists.
The Center for Emancipation Policy's latest study on physician attrition found that approximately 600 physicians leave the country each year.
And while some health centers have 24-hour working hours, people who are unwell during the night where the health centers are not open can contact ambulance.
But emergency services are not always so urgent. Between 2020 and 2024, around 2,2 million calls were made to emergency services in the territory of Belgrade alone, of which 1,7 million were not answered by the team, according to data from the "Right to Life - Mary" movement., established with the aim of enacting the Law on Emergency Medical Aid in Serbia.
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