Medical unions in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland will stage a joint protest on 20 November against their governments’ health policies. The Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Slovak union leaders that signed the ‘Visegrád Charta’ in November 2011 called primarily for minimum salaries of junior doctors to be set at 1.5 times the national average and those of specialist doctors at three times the national average. They also called for rules for work beyond the basic 40 hours a week to be formulated according to the European Work Time Directive. In the actual call it is noted that healthcare in the Central European region, particularly Slovakia and Hungary, is plagued by low salaries, long working hours and staff shortages.
English: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/11/08/last-warning-before-docs-get-tough ...
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