SLOVAKIA HEALTH SYSTEM IN CRISIS AS DOCTORS WALK OUT

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…

THE COST OF LIVING COMPARISON BETWEEN FRANCE AND ROMANIA, HUNGARY, BULGARIA, SLOVAKIA AND LITHUANIA

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…

THE COST OF LIVING COMPARISON BETWEEN GERMANY AND ROMANIA, HUNGARY, BULGARIA, SLOVAKIA, LITHUANIA

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 patients form Giurgiu, Romania, can’t be treated in Ruse, Bulgaria, because connections between the two healthcare systems don’t exist.

“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…

FRUSTRATED EASTERN EUROPEAN DOCTORS HEAD WEST

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…