PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT 2017-2020 In the primary healthcare system, the Government will work on achievement of the following goals and policies: provision of personal gynecologist for every woman in Macedonia; patients will be registered in doctor’s offices, with determination of maximum number of registered patients per doctor; increase of the per capita points for the personal doctors to 90 denars; introduction of medical map of all existing healthcare establishments in Macedonia and liberalizing the net, that is to take away the minister’s right to give a permission to open a doctor’s office and the Fund’s decision whether to conclude an agreement with a doctor’s office which has fulfilled the working conditions according to criteria that applies to everyone; establishment of a fund for financing treatments abroad for children up to 18 years old which will need to urgently adopt the necessary decisions, free from political and ministers’ pressure. Thus, the healthcare treatments of children in Macedonia will not depend on the humanity of its citizens. In the framework of its own healthcare policy, the Government will establish a new independent public healthcare institution for urgent medical assistance, which will unite all services of urgent medical assistance, and it will connect all hospitals in the Republic of Macedonia. The Government will immediately start the preparations for introduction of a freeof-charge hospital treatment for all healthcare insured people. Moreover, a gradual process for increase of basic income of all healthcare workers will be started. The basic income of all healthcare workers will be doubled by the end of the mandate. By the year 2020 the doctor’s income will be at least 100.000 denars, or in precise 1.600 Euros. “My term” will be replaced with a system that guarantees speedy and quality healthcare protection at every level, with precisely determined deadlines and obligations. The new system will dramatically decrease the time for the administrative duties of the doctors. With regard to healthcare facilities, the Government will work on putting into operation the center for diabetes foot treatment in the framework of the City general hospital “8 September”; opening of the Children’s general hospital in Skopje with an Urgent center; opening of the center for on-time diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases with multidisciplinary team with the aim to decrease the complications, such as sterility and malignant diseases; start for reconstruction and equipment (including the necessary staff) of the general and clinic hospitals in Macedonia in order to create university clinics in Stip, Tetovo and Bitola, as well as reconstruction and equipment of the appropriate healthcare houses, policlinics and ambulances (Negotino, Chashka, Rankovce, Lipkovo, Arachinovo, Drachevo, Lisiche, Chair and Novaci). The Government will analyze the possibilities to establish a national cardiovascular center with regional ambition and performances. The Government will secure construction of a new, modern and functional University clinic center in Skopje, which will guarantee high quality healthcare services to the population in the whole country and it will bring back the concept of a single University clinic center in which the clinics will be functionally connected. In order to increase the number of medical specialists in the public healthcare, specialization of the best 10 students in every generation will be introduced and the quotas for state specializations will be raised. We will give an advantage to the scarce specializations according to the needs of the healthcare institutions and regions. During the specializations, the doctors who follow them privately, will be entitled to the income and insurance guaranteed as minimum wages for a general practice doctor. 35