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Let’s turn dissatisfaction with the existing public healthcare policy into a plan to preserve health and healthcare system

Jelena Lalatović Jelena LalatovićMay 24, 2021November 11, 2020

The political concoction of destroying public healthcare and bad climate policies is deadly. Organizing workers in the public sector and connecting them to social and green struggles is key to preserving health and public healthcare system.

Health care workers’ labour rights: compulsory labour and unfulfilled promises

Irena Pejić Irena PejićJuly 3, 2020

As the coronavirus epidemic once again accelerates in Serbia a number of questions emerge, and the media and public focus once again on healthcare workers. What conditions are their working under in these (new) circumstances?

The Industry of Leaving

Sanja Kljajić Sanja Kljajić, Nemanja Rujević, Ajdin KamberDecember 26, 2019December 26, 2019

Every year, thousands of medical workers leave Serbia and the surrounding Balkan countries for Germany, where hospital and retirement homes are more than willing to dish out hefty sums to intermediaries who bring in fresh employee material. It is a play on people looking for a better life, with plenty of money involved. But who are the key players?

Mario Reljanović: Citizens of Serbia will pay dearly for basic medical services, while everything else will be available only to those who can pay

Nemanja Rujević Nemanja Rujević, Sanja Kljajić, Ajdin KamberDecember 26, 2019December 26, 2019

Export of medical health professionals is weakening the public health system in Serbia and is against the interest of its citizens, says Mario Reljanović, a research fellow of the Belgrade Institute of Comparative Law.

Pack your stethoscope: hundreds of doctors migrating from Serbia to Germany

Nemanja Rujević Nemanja RujevićDecember 21, 2017

Pauperised Serbia pays exuberant amounts for educating doctors who end up a number in the Bureau of Labour registers or find employment in the West; affluent Germany systematically educates fewer doctors than it needs because it will always be able to recruit them from countries that “have not made it” in their transition to capitalism.