Salaries of doctors will increase twice next year

If doctors take the memorandum submitted by Prime Minister Iveta Radičová, their salaries should be increased twice next year – since January and since April. As is clear from the memorandum, government committed itself to increase salaries for doctors from January to a minimum of 1,05 to 1,6 times the average wage in the national economy. From April the 1^st their salaries should rise again, at least 1,17 to 1,73 times the average wage. The exact amount of salary for an individual doctor should be driven by the attained education and experiences. Adjusting of the salaries should be made through the Act on minimum wage of nurses and midwives. If this change fails, government will increase the salaries by the directive to the directors of public hospitals and the appeal to the other founders.