March 16 on behalf of the veterinary inspection open letter to the Prime Minister has written to Witold kutner, a spokesman for the National medical and veterinary chamber. In a letter to employees has warned that the Inspectorate is in a state of collapse and cannot effectively defend the country from African swine fever. Doctors say that the Inspectorate lacks at least 600 people. They do not agree on low wages and mass requests an increase to the level of 1.5 the average for the country. As at 16 Mar such treatment sent 3.6 million of the nearly 5.5 thousand employees.

The letter also contained demands creation of new staff positions required for the control of ASF; system solutions for the control of ASF, especially effective cooperation with other government services and local authorities; identifying additional budgetary resources for annual increase of 1% increment for years of service anniversary awards, target awards and payout before retirement.

On-site inspections will not be closed, but they are only a few doctors. You can check associated with the shipment of meat for export. Doctors also will deal with urgent issues related to the fight against ASF. Workers of withinspecies can't go on strike because they are public servants.

The protest of the vets have already attracted attention at the highest level. Last week the Minister of agriculture Krzysztof Yurgel made a proposal to provide allowances to the salaries of the employees of the veterinary inspection in the budgets of 2019. It was about the amount of "about 46 million zlotys" (about 11 million euros).

Source: Kaliningrad branch of the interregional ecological public organization "Green front"