The MPs gave a first reading to a legislative proposal to increase the salaries of employees of public health facilities that form part of the mandatory health insurance system by 40% as from July 1, 2021, IPN reports.

The bill was proposed by the For Moldova platform that includes the MPs of the Shor Party. MP Ruxanda Glavan said in Parliament that the document envisions the allocation of additional financial resources for increasing the salaries of all the categories of personnel of public health facilities of the mandatory health insurance system, including accountants and economists. The associated costs for 2021 were estimated at about 685 million lei. They can be covered with the cumulative balances existing at the end of 2020.

Also today, the MPs adopted a similar legislative initiative of a group of Socialist MPs. Under his, over 840 million lei is need for covering the pay raises of health workers. At the request of the commission on social protection, health and family, it was decided to merge the two bills. A final variant will be agreed in the second reading.

The PAS and PPPDA MPs didn’t take part in the vote as they left the assembly hall at the start of the sitting in protest at a draft decision.