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| A Look at the Romanian Health System 22/11/2010 |
| (2010-11-22) |
| Last updated: 2010-11-23 15:18 EET |
The medical-personnel shortage in the Romanian health system is aggravating day in day out, which has recently prompted the Health Ministry to take action in order to solve the matter.
Over 5,000 candidates on Sunday took their medical internship exam, after officials from the Health Ministry had announced 3 300 vacancies, most of which are found in areas of expertise facing deficiency, such as intensive care, emergency and radiology.
On the occasion, Health Minister Attila Cseke said the Ministry was drafting a law package that, among others, provided for a 1-year reduction of the medical internship period for 36 specialties.
Another provision is conditioning the right to practice medicine on proficiency criteria established by the Health Ministry with approval from the Romanian Physicians’ College. Interns with a limited set of skills can therefore be employed starting with their 4th year of study. Medicine graduates who fail the internship exam may be allowed into the system with limited duties. They can do shifts under guidance within emergency room units or various family medicine offices, without having their own seal or signature right.
Health Minister Attile Cseke added that the new single payment law would allow for a 50 to 70% increase in the base salary for medical interns without neglecting young doctors’ professional prospects. On the other hand, the Health Minister said the main reason for the large number of doctors leaving Romania was not strictly tied to the salary crisis, but to other issues such as limited access to information or the lack of state-of-the-art technology.
Clara Matei, head of the Romanian Association of Resident Physicians, said that approximately 30% of one class of medical graduates leave the country due to substandard working conditions in Romanian hospitals and low salaries. The Rector of the ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Prof. Dr. Florian Popa in turn said that over 5,000 specialists had left the country during the past year. Moreover, he highlighted that financial efforts to keep them in the country would have amounted to a staggering 350 million euros.
Instead, those who received them saved some 1.5 billion euros, the overall amount required for their training. Measures announced by Romanian authorities are generally considered to be just the tip of the iceberg. Young doctors said they are tired of working under pressure in hospitals and ending up jobless at the end of their internship.
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