“We will have to pay part of the costs for 2024. As we know, from April 1 of this year, the salaries of medical workers have increased, and quite a large part of the additional money in the budget will be spent on covering them, that is, we will have some fixed expenses,” explained Marko Tähnas, member of the board of the Health Insurance Fund.
According to Tähnas, the budget should be enough to keep queues for doctors at current levels; First of all, the focus will be on inpatient treatment.
At the same time, the financial director of the North-Estonian Regional Hospital, Kairi Kivimäe, noted that “planned treatment still has to be limited, which means that the queues will grow.”
Due to the current collective agreement, 28 million euros more will be spent on doctors’ salaries in the first quarter of next year than this year, and, according to the head of the Hospital Union, Urmas Sule, hospitals do not have the financial capacity to increase salaries.
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