While the attitude of the general population regarding Germany’s healthcare system is in general positive, the government officials don’t tend to hit back and relax, but plan to lay the groundwork to resolve the future problems that Germany may face. Montgomery to MLP Health Report 2011: workload goes for doctors on the substance…
Bratislava, Dec 1st (Reuters) – Slovak healthcare unions warned on Thursday the country’s medical sector may disintegrate after doctors walked out due to an ongoing dispute over wage hikes, forcing the government to ask neighbouring countries for medical support. Around one fifth of country’s 7000 doctors did not show up for work, according to Slovak…
Given the fact that you considered our previous comparison study: “The cost of living comparison between Germany and Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania†useful, here, we present you the sequel. Continuing on the same idea, you are a specialist doctor (because France only recruits specialists), you like the French lifestyle, culture, language and everything France…
I bet that when most of you think of hospitals and food at the same time, you can only think of well… hospital food. And I bet that hospital food is never on someone’s favorite dish list… Well, things just got interesting… In Latvia, more specifically in Riga, there is such a restaurant in which…
So let’s say you are a doctor living in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia or Lithuania. By now I guess you know all about the shortcomings of the healthcare system in your country, about the general smaller wages than in Germany and about the other things that make you consider a career abroad. You have your…
The Romanian healthcare system is being prepared for a new major reform, after six years from the promulgation of the Hospital Law. According to the project elaborated by the Presidential Commission for Review and Elaboration of Projects in the Healthcare System, privatization of hospitals and the introduction of private insurance are two of the most…
“In theory, the hospital form Ruse could handle the treatment of Romanian patients from Giurgiu. The problem is that the two healthcare systems can’t collaborate†said Dr. Kiril Panayotov. According to him there are no technical obstacles regarding patient transport over the border: The main problem regarding patient care across the borders and involving healthcare…
More and more eastern European doctors are heading west as government economic austerity measures eat into their pay and conditions deteriorate, leaving behind understaffed health systems in crisis. From Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, growing numbers of physicians, surgeons, anesthetists and other specialists are packing up for countries like Britain, Germany and Sweden. “There are no…
It’s a known fact. For years now, Romanian doctors look for financial and professional recognition abroad. They run away from a healthcare system that condemns them to take bribes from patients. Almost 30, N.K. already made himself a plan for his future as a dentist. It does not include Romania. Even though, being Macedonian, he…
Video here: Europe\’s med students flock to Romania! While Romanian doctors leave their country to work abroad, medical students from all over the world flock to Romania, in order to obtain their medical diploma here. Cluj-Napoca, in the heart of Transylvania, at the first sight you would think this is just your ordinary sleepy…