The fact that the salary of a doctor was reduced with 25% last year fuels the ever growing negative feelings that Romanian doctors have for the Romanian healthcare system. A study conducted by the “Solidaritatea Sanitara†Federation underlines the fact that 70% of doctors are considering the possibility of a better medical career abroad. The…
“Last year, in Romania graduated 6000 med students. In the same year, 7000 medics decided to leave the country in order to work in countries such as Italy, France, Germany, the UK…†declares the president of WONCA World, Prof. Dr. Richard Roberts. “Romania has a great number of family doctors that are dedicated and well…
The outflow of doctors heading abroad for more money is continuing to rise, threatening Romania’s already dilapidated health system. Around 1,700 doctors left Romania to go to work abroad in the first eight months of this year, a figure that is steadily increasing, the Colegiul Medicilor, a professional organization for doctors, said yesterday. The number,…
“Specialist Doctors did not receive their money from the National Health Insurance Agency (CNAS) since the month of May, in these conditions they will no longer be able to continue their activityâ€, underlines a press release form 9th of August, stated by the Alliance for Health in Romania (APSR). “In two years since the program…
The “cult of the doctors†was always concerned about the beauty of the human body… Step by step it’s fading, under our indifferent eyes, the cult with a history of thousands of years. The medical practice implied keeping the state of health, without directives and reforms from any authority, only trough self-knowing and under the…
From the eyes of Doctor Dan Pahontu “I wouldn’t have written the following text if in the last few days the media would not have published an article that calls into question the moral integrity and professionalism of the whole social body – that of doctors, occurring in a context in which the media’s central…
I don’t believe that in Romania there exists a more humiliated professional class than that of the doctors. Underpaid, poorly equipped, the media’s favorite targets, always too few and lately those who work in healthcare have become also targets of serious physical violence. The case of the stretcher bearer stabbed in Cluj is not an…
In the past years, medical tourism achieved such a magnitude that in Romania there are entire hotels just for foreigners that come here for medical treatment. WHY? Because prices in Romania are 5 or 6 times lower in Romania then in other UE countries and because a lot of Romanian doctors have gained notoriety. The…
ARE YOU A PART OF IT? Whether it is about jobs for people with higher education, or job offers in the technical field, the Romanian people benefit from a high number of jobs in the EU countries where they will be form 3-5 times better paid than in Romania. One of the most sought after…
The Romanian government approved the Memorandum on the construction of 6 new regional emergency hospitals through a public-private partnership proposal from the Ministry of Health. The six university hospitals will be built in Cluj, Craiova, Iasi, Targul-Mures, Timisoara and Bucharest. The investment in the 6 miedical units amounts to about 1.5 billion Euro. The Ministry…