Like in most European countries, individuals have the right to choose their own family doctor and medicine, but for some reason the Lithuanian Ministry of Health does not believe that patients should have the right to choose medical care providers such as hospitals. Nearly two years ago the Ministry of Health changed the prescription drug…
We decided to publish this article regarding the medical migration trend in Romania, so that we can come to a mutual agreement about why medical specialists choose to leave their country in order to practice medicine abroad. Before giving our own insights we present to you this article from the Adevarul newspaper:…
Introduction: World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. It is led by the Union for International Cancer Control, a global consortium of more than 470 cancer-fighting organizations in over 120 countries. World Cancer Day targets the public through global communications, and…
More than 500 Bulgarian doctors have left the country to work abroad in 2010, says the Bulgarian Doctors Union. The secretary general of the Union, Dimitar Lenkov, announced the data, which was established on the basis of certificates issued for good medical practice, required for working abroad. Mostly anesthesiologists and surgeons left the Balkan…
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…
In the first nine months of the year, over 1.900 doctors have left the country in order to work in state of the art hospitals in Western Europe. The fact that doctors continue to leave Romania is a negative phenomenon because some medical fields remain uncovered. “In the first nine months of 201, 1.900 doctors…