8 out of 10 health professionals live in debt

Genel Sağlık-İş conducted a comprehensive survey that revealed the economic and social problems of health workers before March 14, Medicine Day. The survey results revealed that the debts and financial difficulties of health workers are increasing day by day, their anxiety about the future has increased, and their prestige in society has decreased.

According to the study entitled Research on Current Problems of Health Professionals-March 2023, despite the measures taken to curb migration and resignation, the economic situation of health professionals did not improve, on the contrary, it worsened. In research conducted by the union in 2019, the rate of healthcare professionals who had to borrow money for the continuation of daily life was 69.6 percent. This rate rose to 72.8 percent in 2021 and 75.3 percent in 2022, while rising to 81.1 percent in this year’s survey. These data show that the ratio of health professionals who can survive with debt has increased 11.5 points in the last 4 years and 5.8 points in the last year.

EVERYONE must

According to the research, more than 75 percent of health workers have a regular monthly labor income of less than 20,000 lira. 92.1 percent of health professionals owe money to banks, 19.8 percent to their families, and 14.3 percent to close friends. 35 percent of healthcare professionals who use credit cards can only pay the minimum amount. The research, which shows that a significant portion of health workers face violence, oppression, intimidation, mobbing and incompetence, also revealed that 3 out of 10 health workers applied for volunteer work in the area. of the earthquake, and only 1 of them was allowed.

Derya Ugur

Improve working conditions

Evaluating the report, General Health-İş President Dr. Derya Uğur demanded an urgent improvement in the harsh and poor working conditions of health workers and a gradual increase in additional indicators to cover all health workers. health. Demanding that practices that lead to victimization of health workers such as fixed and performance payments and disturb labor peace, Dr. Uğur called for the enactment of an effective violence law that prevents violence in health, improves of the working conditions of health workers working in the earthquake zone and the payment of double wages.