The NHS said the increase should be implemented before the autumn and that it would not jeopardise budgetary revenue.
Such a measure would at least somewhat alleviate the increasingly frequent increases in prices, notably of oil products, NHS president Kresimir Sever told reporters.
The NHS believes the government should also re-examine the whole social system and introduce additional measures for the most socially sensitive population.
Sever recalled that apart from oil products, this year prices had gone up for water, gas, flats, lawyers' services, fruit, vegetables, road tolls and medicines. He added heating, public and rail transport were likely to become more expensive in the autumn due to higher oil prices.
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