(Newswire.net — March 8, 2018) — Over 700 Canadian doctors, amongst which 213 are general practitioners and 184 specialists, have signed an open letter in which they have voiced out against the salary increase recently proposed by authorities.
Yes, you read it correctly, all of these people opposed an increase in personal bank accounts, CNBC reports.
The cause of this is a sincere concern for the well-being of patients and colleagues. In an open letter, more than 500 Canadian doctors rejected the salary incense in favor of colleagues and patients who need it more.
“These increases are all the more shocking because our nurses, clerks and other professionals face very difficult working conditions, while our patients live with the lack of access to required services because of the drastic cuts in recent years and the centralization of power in the Ministry of Health,” reads the letter, which was published February 25.
“The only thing that seems to be immune to the cuts is our remuneration,” the letter says.
In an open letter, they asked the Ministry of Health to put back their increased pay into the health care system, to meet the needs of less privileged ones.
The 213 general practitioners, 184 specialists, 149 resident medical doctors and 162 medical students want the money raises to be returned to the system instead.
“We want to meet the needs of our patients without using healthcare workers to the limit,” they said.
The average medical paycheck in Canada is $ 260,924, ($339.000 Canadian) Gross, which is above the average of Western countries.
Canada has a public health system, which provides “universal coverage for medically necessary health care services provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay,” the government’s website says.