Adrian Wiener: "The government has introduced discrimination regarding the allowance for hospital guards"

External doctors performing on-call duty in hospitals will receive a 30% lower allowance than the doctors of the respective health unit, USR deputy Adrian Wiener says in a post on the official Facebook page.

Doctor Adrian Wiener claims: "The order to increase salaries in Health appeared. Among other things, the allowance for on-calls, for external doctors, those who only do on-calls, decreases: from 500 to 350 gross for one on-call and from 1000 to 700 gross for two on-calls. The story goes something like this: since 2018, the hourly rate for on-call service in hospitals has been capped. Although wages have increased, the rate for guards has remained the same - about half the hourly rate for the base rate. After years of negotiations, the government decided last year, not to bring the hourly rate up to date, but to give an additional allowance for one guard, respectively for two and more guards. 500, respectively 1000 gross lei. Now, Ciolacu decides that external doctors, those who only work as guards, will take 30% less of this allowance. A villain. A blatant discrimination. After the introduction of the "sickness tax" and the deliberate underfunding of hospitals (the CNAS budget is 30% lower than necessary), now Ciolacu is hitting doctors directly. Rafila is silent, as usual".

We remind you that last week the Government approved an emergency ordinance regarding the increase of salaries in health and social assistance by 20%, in two installments, the first in March and the second in June. The promise of a 20% salary increase had been made by the Government as early as January, in the context in which Sanitas, the largest trade union federation in the healthcare system, threatened to launch a general strike if salaries did not increase.

In addition to the social assistance staff, 235,611 doctors, pharmacists, biologists, chemists, physicists, medical registrars, medical statisticians and auxiliary-sanitary staff, TESA staff, will benefit from increases. The normative act also establishes the fact that general medicine doctors who are on duty within the ambulance services and emergency reception structures (UPU/CPU) within the health units will benefit from compensation for the on-duty duties performed, based on an individual time-based employment contract partial.