She spoke of the high level of disability among nurses, poor existential situation, insufficient empowerment of women, stressing that their working conditions need to be improved. On the behalf of the Trade Union, Radmila Simovic spoke of the Women’s Trade Union Network operating within the Trade Union. She said that the Trade Union wishes to launch two initiatives – that women in health care can work in shifts only until their 50th year of age and that work in intensive care should be limited to five years. Simovic added that there is a proposal to set up a rehabilitation programme, in cooperation with other organisations, for nurses working in difficult departments.
The members of the Women’s Parliamentary Network agreed that women working in health care need to be empowered and that their position should be regulated by legislative frameworks, and that all these problems should also be discussed by the Health and Family Committee. They also said that they were sure the Trade Union would continue to cooperate with the Women’s Parliamentary Network.
The meeting was attended by the Women’s Parliamentary Network coordinator, Biljana Hasanovic Korac and Network members Tamara Tripic, Vesna Milekic, Donka Banovic and Dubravka Filipovski.