In Trnava´s region hospitals will increase the salaries and debts

Hospitals of the Trnava self-governing region will respect the law and will increase the wages of nurses from April 1^st. This will require in each of three regional hospitals in this year approximately € 1.5 million, together with increasing of salaries of doctors. According to the head of the region Tibor Mikuš this increasing can not be compensated with any measures in management, because the wage and payroll payments cost about 80% of hospital revenues. Increasing of salaries will, according to him, goes at the expense of indebtedness of hospitals.