{"id":33910,"date":"2022-04-05T12:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=33910"},"modified":"2022-04-05T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:54:46","slug":"kosovo-health-care-staff-protest-over-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo-health-care-staff-protest-over-working-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo health care staff protest over working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo health care workers held a protest on Tuesday in front of the University Clinical Center in Prishtina.<\/p>\n<p>In a protest that lasted about one hour, they sought better wages, raising the pay for night shifts from \u20ac18 to \u20ac36, and additional benefits during national holidays and weekends.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was organized by the Union Nurses, Midwives, and Other Healthcare Professionals of Kosovo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 56.2500%; padding-bottom: 48px; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAE9ApFw_Fk\/watch?embed\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAE9ApFw_Fk\/watch?utm_content=DAE9ApFw_Fk&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=embeds&amp;utm_source=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kosovo health care workers protest over working conditions<\/a> by Euronews Balkans<\/p>\n<p>Elirat Duraku said that they are not demanding any luxuries, but simply pressing on requests that have been persisting for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Duraku warned of strikes if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue consulting with the Strike Council and the executive organs of the Union in order to decide on the next step, which will eventually escalate into further activities until are requests are fulfilled\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Union representatives said that their requests are simple and easily achievable.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that these issues are among the main reasons why healthcare staff flee the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2020\/08\/03\/kosovo-nurses-hand-over-uniforms-in-sign-of-protest\/\">Kosovo, nurses hand over uniforms in sign of protest<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo health care workers held a protest on Tuesday in front of the University Clinical Center in Prishtina. In a protest that lasted about one hour, they sought better wages, raising the pay for night shifts from \u20ac18 to \u20ac36, and additional benefits during national holidays and weekends. The protest was organized by the Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1114,1112,300,151,1113,336,515],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kosovo health care staff protest over working conditions - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo-health-care-staff-protest-over-working-conditions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kosovo health care staff protest over working conditions - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo health care workers held a protest on Tuesday in front of the University Clinical Center in Prishtina. 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