Good News from President - Health Care Workers to Receive $ 230 per month

The head of the state raised the salaries of health workers.

According to the Order published in the official press, salaries of health workers financed from the state budget, from September 1, increased by 10%.

In hospitals, clinics and other health care budget employs 33.1 thousand and 60.1 thousand doctors of the middle medical personnel. According to the State Statistics Committee, the average salary is 164 manats ( $ 209 ) a month . For comparison - the president of Azerbaijan, speaking at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on the results of socio -economic development of the country in 2012, spoke of the average salary in the amount of $ 500.

Finance Minister Samir Sharifov during the autumn discuss the budget for 2013, said that this year is expected to increase the salaries of approximately 700 thousand state employees. For the allowances will be spent 180 million manat , the agency said a source in the Ministry of Finance.

According to the decree 203 of 13 December 2011 the Cabinet of Ministers , a single wage rates (http://cabmin.gov.az/?/az/pressreliz/view/599) employees of institutions financed from the state budget , consists of 19 categories - salary of employees category 1 AZN 93.5 , the highest category - 644 manats. That is, highly qualified doctors , to which the population of the country trust their health , in the eyes of the government less in demand than accountants , drivers , gardeners or assistant warden , and get together with government allowances of up to 250 manats ( $ 320 ) a month , which corresponds to 8-9 category salary . In such an environment how could they talk about the fight against corruption and bribery?

It's no secret that the health care system throughout the country , especially in the regions , it is common practice to work on making polshtata and even a quarter of the state. Omit the mercantile interest of HR and chief physicians who practice such nonsense - it turns out that people from despair queue up to work with a salary of $ 80 - 160 per month, and in the case of nurses - even less.

Turan wrote that the inflation process and the progress of implementation of the law on the state budget can increase wages by 10% without significantly increasing the well-being of the population. Even rumors of increase of pensions and salaries representatives of mass professions ( teachers and doctors ) encourage the growth of food prices and further on all production of the real sector of the economy.

Typically, the increase in wages , pensions and social benefits in Azerbaijan is not based on public monitoring and strategic studies , and spontaneous - on the eve of defining political events - the same election , for example.

The state budget for next year deputies handed out a week before its approval without coordination with the people's representatives, and even more so with non-governmental organizations.

According to figures from the State Statistics Committee, Azerbaijan has one of the lowest salaries ( in comparison with the social significance ), health workers (on average , 164 manat per month) and education (283 manat ) .

Surcharges are not included.

On spheres of economic activity more than others earn employees of the extractive industry, pilots, communications, finance and insurance companies, transport workers and builders. - 17D-