The case of hundreds of medical workers taking to the streets to call for help because they are owed 8 months of salary: What do hospital leaders say?

Regarding the fact that Tue Tinh Hospital, under the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy, owes salaries to officials, public employees and employees.

On the afternoon of January 12, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long asked leaders of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Tue Tinh Hospital to immediately coordinate with relevant units of the Ministry of Health to completely solve the problem. salary debt, ensure the interests of officials, public employees and employees in accordance with the provisions of law and report to the Ministry of Health before January 20, 2022.

The fact that medical staff have been owed their salaries for many months has reached a c.limax when on January 12, dozens of medical staff at Tue Tinh Hospital put up banners asking for their salaries. The reason is that over the past 8 months, they have been owed 50% of their basic salary.

According to many medical staff of this hospital, the meager salary they receive every month is not enough for them to cover their living expenses, many people have to sell vegetables and fruits after work to earn extra income.

Recently, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Huy, Director of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy, said that related to the above incident, the Board of Directors of Tue Tinh Hospital, the Union of the Academy and functional departments met. , encourage and suggest that officials and employees stay calm, do not gather in large numbers, causing internal instability.

Leaders insist on doing the right thing

According to the hospital's director, from January 2019, Tue Tinh Hospital was adjusted to classify public non-business units from those that self-finance part of regular operating expenses to those that self-finance routine operating expenses. often.

Tue Tinh Hospital is autonomous and responsible for the use of financial resources to perform its duties in accordance with the regulations of the State and the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy. The management of the staff and the salary regime of officials and employees working at the Hospital comply with the provisions of the Law on Public Employees and the current Law.

Regarding the reason for the delay in salary, hospital leaders said that the Covid-19 epidemic was complicated, especially in the 4th wave from the end of April 2021, the hospital had almost no patients. Bed occupancy in the first quarter of 2021 reached 15%, the second quarter of 2021 reached 51.19% and the third quarter of 2021 reached 12.1% of the planned number of hospital beds.

According to the hospital's representative, despite the decrease in revenue, the hospital still has to increase spending to implement measures to prevent and control i.nfection caused by the Covid-19 epidemic such as purchasing anti-epidemic costumes, antiseptic solutions, expenses. serve the vaccination work for officials, employees and their relatives, appoint officials to participate in the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic in localities.

Therefore, from May 2021 to now, the Hospital has only temporarily paid 50% of the salary, leading to many difficulties in the life of officials and employees. Mr. Huy emphasized that the unit has proposed a plan to handle and remove difficulties, consulted the Ministry of Health and is waiting for specific direct instructions from the Ministry of Health and will soon make full payment of salaries. for staff.

Leaders have promised

Nursing Tran Thi Hong Minh - Department of Internal Medicine shared, her total salary is just over 3 million VND/month, from May until now, she has not been received, Minh's family life is now in poverty and difficult. messed up, did not have m.oney to pay, she did not dare to send her children to study more.

According to Ms. Minh, the problem of the hospital's salary debt is already like that, but the hospital's leaders seem to be very insensitive to the difficulties of their subordinates. "Many times the leader promised to solve it, but then nothing was solved, while the leader still had the regime, we were in a desperate situation. Worrying about daily life was not enough, we didn't think about Tet at all. ", Ms. Minh shared when asked about her thinking about the approaching Tet.

Le Thanh Binh, Leader of the Trade Union Group, Tue Tinh Hospital also said that Tue Tinh Hospital is one of three units under the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy. While other units still enjoy benefits or guarantees paid for by the hospital, Tue Tinh alone does not. But when employees consulted with the management, they were told that "the hospital is autonomous, so it has to take care of its own responsibilities".

The hospital leadership could not give a specific timeline to resolve, instead only generally saying "in the shortest time". However, up to now, hundreds of health workers in Tue Tinh still work in parallel, taking care of patients and vaccinating, but do not receive any salary.

"From May 2021 to November 2021, we were owed 50% of our salary, and we did not have any m.oney until December. At the briefings, the Board of Directors said that there was no source to pay for the hospital." Ms. Binh is angry. It is known that most of the hospital's staff are nurses, so the salary coefficient is very low, including industry allowances or toxic allowances, only 6-7 million VND per month. From May 2021, they only receive half, or 3 million per month.

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