Health Minister Azir Aliu briefs reporters three days before the new government is formed, saying he completes his 13-month mandate in the health sector with 15 prepared legislative solutions and several reforms already started. Aliu highlights that the proposed smoking-related law is expected to be adopted before the Assembly is dissolved. He also points to reforms that he says address staffing shortages in emergency medical care, including a plan for three-year study programs at the medical faculty. According to Aliu, the longer training will equip future doctors to provide first aid and conduct triage in the field, pending approval of the new curriculum by the university rectorate. Another priority he lists is linking public and private healthcare financially, which he says would allow citizens to choose where to receive services. Aliu frames the concept as ensuring funding from public contributions to enable patients to select between institutions they consider more efficient. He notes he will return to academic work after his term. For his successor, Aliu’s replacement proposal goes to Sasho Klekovski, the current director of the Health Fund, ahead of parliamentary proceedings on government reconstruction.