Salary increase for "white shirts" - Prime Minister Rama: Over 1 billion euros for health and social welfare
The draft state budget for next year has foreseen over 1 billion euros for health and social welfare, or nearly 4% of the Gross National Product. In a video message on social networks, Prime Minister Edi Rama, among other things, stated that, for the first time, a funding line from the state budget is being opened solely for the fight against cancer, introducing an extra 15 million euros to serve oncology patients.
Meanwhile, the head of the executive also spoke about increasing salaries for healthcare workers.
4,600 doctors, nurses and pharmacists, as well as 14,200 technicians and laboratory technicians, will benefit from a new salary increase, which is also a clear message to the new generation of white shirts, that in Albania people stay and work with dignity and that Albania 2030 will become the place where leaving will be simply an individual choice, not an imposition due to the inability to stay and work here.
Investments in the modernization of hospital infrastructure will also continue, with the new Korça hospital, the Durrës emergency room, the Mati and Tropoja municipal hospitals, and others. But 2026 is also the year of the introduction of artificial intelligence into the health service.
2026 is also the year of the entry of artificial intelligence into our health service, through a joint company that the Albanian state is creating with one of the excellences of artificial intelligence in European health, while, with the financing provided by European funds, we will create the digital ecosystem ready for artificial intelligence, opening new paths for diagnostics with images of predictive analysis and interoperability at the national level of the digital health system in accordance with the European Union's digital agenda.
According to the Prime Minister, next year will open the door to the strategic partnership of the QSUT with the prestigious San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, one of the best in the world, starting the process of a transformation that will make the QSUT, by 2030, a prestigious regional health center throughout the Western Balkans.
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