Orthopedics KCCG: Problems cannot be solved if Bulatović is the director

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A group of doctors from the Clinic for Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) announced today that their only goal is to speed up the work process and overcome broken relationships, which is impossible if their director is Dr. Nikola Bulatović.

In a letter to the media, nine doctors claim that the KCCG administration has not officially responded to their letter dated May 28, in which they informed the public that they will stop working if Bulatović is appointed director of that organizational unit.

“Namely, as we have not received an official response to the aforementioned letter, nor have we been invited to an interview to consider the allegations and circumstances presented in it, and bearing in mind that this is an issue that directly relates to the organization of the clinic’s work, interpersonal relations and our functioning as a professional team, we believe that a timely and institutional reaction is of particular importance. In this regard, we note that we have been informed by the media, by the management of the KCCG, that the administration of the KCCG ‘remains in the expectation of collective understanding in overcoming problems in the past’, so in this sense we would like to emphasize that we did not have the opportunity to further explain the allegations from our letter, and there were many more examples, nor did we participate in any formal process of considering them, for which reasons we are forced to publicly ask you a few questions”, states the letter signed by doctors Aleksandar Jušković, Vladan Čipović, Marko Borovinić, Ivan Vlahović, Mile Goločevac, Aleksandar Petričić, Oleg Laković, Miodrag Vujadinović and Igor Mandić.

They asked director Aleksandar Radović if he considered their letter, from which other doctors he asked for a plan and program for running the clinic, so he liked Dr. Bulatović’s program the most, whether they warned him on several occasions that Dr. Bulatović was not a good choice and would be a big problem for the functioning of the clinic.

“Do you believe us nine doctors, given that we assume that you consider us to be serious people, in the claims we made about the behavior of Dr. Bulatović in the previous mandate and the period after, regardless of whether or not there is a written trace of this in the KCCG archives? If you believe us, in what way do you think we should come to our senses and give your proposal a chance to overcome such damaged interpersonal relations at the clinic?”, the letter says.

The doctors also asked Radović if he thinks that their request is big and insurmountable if they ask that, for the sake of better relations at the clinic (and therefore more efficient functioning), the clinic should be run by any other doctor than Dr. Bulatović, but also who is the only doctor of the Orthopedic Clinic who was appointed as a member of several tender commissions, whose task is to select the most favorable bidder for osteosynthetic material and knee, hip and shoulder prosthetics, with an amount worth several million, and is it Dr. Nikola Bulatovic?

“All this inconvenience that we suffer and all this process of exposure to the public that we are forced to carry out, we do with only one goal, and that is the better functioning and prosperity of the clinic for the sake of the fastest and highest quality resolution of numerous orthopedic and traumatological pathologies and a large number of patients, which, you will agree, must be our priority,” states the group of doctors.

They also claim that for the same reason, in the last few years, they insist every day on solving and building a new operating room at the Clinic for Orthopedics and Traumatology, which would be urgently needed to reduce the waiting list of patients and enable them to work more safely, given that it would only be used for prosthetics, i.e. elective surgery:

“We still do not have an answer from you when it would be possible, regardless of the fact that we are aware that the Government of Montenegro allocated material resources for its construction in the capital budget last year”.

The doctors also conclude that speeding up the work process and overcoming the damaged interpersonal relations at the clinic cannot be achieved by appointing Dr. Nikola Bulatović as director of the clinic, because in the previous period there was a serious, irreparable and permanently damaged professional communication, interpersonal and collegial relations between the majority of the medical team (nine doctors) and the director.