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From July 1, Belarus canceled COVID-19 related allowances (additional payments) for doctors and nurses working with COVID-19 positive patients, but introduced new permanent bonuses, which are tied to a percentage of the salary, depending on the complexity and intensity of the doctor’s work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The salaries of doctors with new bonuses introduced instead of COVID-19 payments are less than what they had during the pandemic, but more than before the start of the pandemic, reported the press service of the Ministry of Health of Belarus.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Ministry of Health explained that all \u201cCOVID-19\u201d related money from the budget will be used to further increase the wages of ALL medical workers, not SOME. Although the COVID-19 payments have been canceled, now all categories of healthcare workers will receive new bonuses. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Why this change? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Ministry of Health explained that only about 40% of the country’s health workers were receiving “COVID-19” payments, while the remaining 60% of health workers did not work with COVID-19 patients and were not getting the added salary bonus (payment). Since mid-spring of 2022, the situation with COVID-19 <\/strong>stabilized in the country and only 7% of health workers were getting the extra payments for working in high risk zones with COVID-19 patients.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Ministry of Health noted that after the introduction of new payments, which are applicable to all doctors, the salary of those who did not work with COVID-19 patients has substantially increased.<\/span><\/span> For example, general practitioners and ambulance doctors got an increase by 445-541 rubles, internal medicine doctors, surgeons, and pediatricians working in hospitals – the salary increased by 280-340 rubles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “Now the Ministry of Health is monitoring salaries of doctors of all medical specialties. A strict requirement is that all promised new payments must be paid out and, at the same time, all previous payments and bonuses must be preserved,” noted the Ministry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n