Macedonian Minister of Health Azir Aliu at an event marking Nurses Week (May 5-12) in Skopje on Sunday highlighted the key role of nurses, technicians and midwives as the core of the health system – from prevention and diagnostics, to rehabilitation and support for patients and their families.
“The Ministry of Health is committed to strengthening human resources in public health institutions, with over 1,250 jobs created in the public health sector, a significant portion of which are nurses. In order to improve the economic situation of health workers, a collective agreement was signed last month with the Union of Employees at the Clinical Center and the Independent Union for Health, Pharmacy and Social Protection, which provides for a 7 percent wage increase with the March wage, as well as a determined dynamics for further wage growth in the coming period,” Minister Aliu said in his address to the ceremonial academy, organized by the National Association of Nurses, Technicians and Midwives ZMSTAM.
