Wages of nurses and midwives should rise

Nurses and midwives should get better from April next year. The government had approved the draft bill on their pay. The average wage of nurses and midwives should be, compared to the first half of this year, increased by 24  % in average. The law applies on nurses and midwives and also on the nurses working in foster homes. Increase of the minimum wage was one of the requirements of nurses and midwives in the petition backed by more than 243 000 citizens. The costs of this change are more than € 77 million for the next year.