Three doctors returned around 25,000 euros to the healthcare budget after it was determined their salaries had been incorrectly calculated and they had received more than they were entitled to. The director of the Health Insurance Fund, Saso Klekovski, did not reveal which doctors were involved, but noted that the doctor the prime minister claimed was earning 12,000 euros monthly is not among them.

Still, this opens serious questions. How is it possible to pay inflated salaries for months or years without anyone reacting? Is this a systemic error or selective oversight? And how many such cases remain undiscovered?

The fact that the money was returned doesn't close the story - it opens it. There must be accountability, not just for those who received the funds, but for those who calculated, approved, and disbursed the salaries.

The money returned is no small error - it's tens of thousands of euros. Split across three, that's roughly 8,333 euros per doctor. That's the amount hospital support staff - janitors, maintenance workers - earn over 20 months. On minimum wage, someone would have to work over a year and a half to reach such a sum.

And that's precisely why this isn't just an administrative oversight, but a question of justice in the system. When some fight for years for a basic salary, while others receive a mistake worth several years' earnings, the problem isn't in the numbers - it's in the system.

If three were discovered, it's logical to ask the dilemma - are they the only ones or just the first? Especially given that such irregularities had already been publicly flagged by officials, including the prime minister and the health minister. This means institutions already had indications the problem was not isolated.

The suspicions aren't new. There had been prior public discussion of situations where doctors, while on official trips abroad, simultaneously received compensation for on-call shifts domestically. If such practices truly existed, then the problem is not isolated - it's systemic.