Since June this year, there have been news of doctors' salary cuts in Henan, Guangxi and other places.
An attending doctor at Beijing Tongren Hospital also said that salaries fell sharply in August, and performance bonuses and night shift pay fell by 50%. And the salary cut happened suddenly, the doctor said: "There is no document for such a big event, only the day before the payday, the department and the doctor greet each other." ”
And so far, the hospital has not officially responded to the reasons for the salary cut.
There is an item in the medical circle for all doctors, called "Has your hospital lowered its salary this year?" In the survey, 3499 doctors participated in the vote, of which 2275 doctors said "salary reduction", 686 doctors said "no reduction, the same as before", 222 doctors said "no reduction, but also a salary increase", and 316 doctors did not give a clear answer.
From the survey, it can be seen that since the beginning of this year, more than 65% of doctors have said that they have reduced their salaries, which shows that there are many salary reductions. The salary reduction of hospitals is likely to be due to the significant reduction in business volume and income of many hospitals under the influence of the epidemic, resulting in a great impact on the financial situation of hospitals.
According to the "Circular of the General Office of the National Health Commission on the National Monitoring and Analysis of the Performance Evaluation of National Tertiary Public Hospitals in 2020", in 2020, the medical surplus of 20 provinces in the country was negative, accounting for 62.5%, an increase of 56.25 percentage points over 2019; 753 tertiary public hospitals had a negative medical surplus, accounting for 43.5%, an increase of 25.89 percentage points over 2019. The medical surplus ratio of tertiary public hospitals in China was -0.6%, down 3.6 percentage points from 2019; the asset-liability ratio of hospitals was 44.09%, basically the same as in 2019.
The circular concludes that the revenues of these hospitals are insufficient to cover their expenses, putting a lot of pressure on the operations of the hospitals. In this context, the salary reform of hospitals has become a reality that must be faced.
In response to this incident, a doctor said: "As doctors, we understand the situation of the hospital. But we should also take into account the hard work of medical staff, and don't chill the hearts of those who are struggling to save lives and help the wounded on the front line. ”
Netizens also believe that the salary of front-line doctors should not be reduced:
"The biggest problem in hospitals is management, not doctors who are struggling on the front line, and it is also the management who wants to reduce salaries."
"I'm not a doctor, and I don't agree to give doctors a pay cut. Because front-line doctors are very hard, the price of medicine, he can't decide. The customization of the machine, he could not decide. So, I deduced that it was unreasonable to give front-line doctors a pay cut. ”
"My friend's pediatrician, a third-class hospital in a third- and fourth-tier city, is more than 10,000 a month, but it is really, very hard, and everyone who studies medicine knows that they have basically no salary for many years after graduation, and they are all simmering. Doctors' salaries should not be lowered. ”
"When I was a nurse in my last year of university, I had no salary and had to rent a house, ask my family for living expenses, and stay up for endless night shifts. Clinicians are also university 5 years + 3 years and three more years of regular training, studying medicine is really tiring, training a doctor takes 12 years to get a salary, but also to reduce the salary is really unreasonable, everyone forgot the frontline medical staff who are fighting the epidemic? ”
"Yes, if the salary is cut, there will be many people who resign first, there will be few people who wish to study medicine second, medical resources are rapidly reduced, and the unlucky ones are still patients..."
"Hard study for more than ten years, conscientious work, pressure to stay up late without vacation, although not a doctor, but know the hard work of the profession of doctors, should not be told. Before I heard a doctor say that there is a popular phrase in their industry, persuading people to learn medicine and thunder and slash. ”
The general decline in medical care salaries is bound to have an important impact on the medical industry. If the salary cannot meet the basic needs of medical staff, it will lead to more talents leaving the medical industry, which will undoubtedly adversely affect the personnel structure and quality of the entire medical industry. In addition, the inefficiency of the medical industry will lead to the waste of medical resources, further exacerbating the rise in medical costs, which may eventually adversely affect society.