A system for licensing medical practice will be introduced in Moldova, said Minister of Health Ala Nemerenco. According to her, each doctor of medicine will be subject to assessment once in five years. If the doctor is not preoccupied with continuous training or cases of malpractice are be identified in the practice of this, the physician will be retrograded. The new licensing system will not yet leave the health facilities without doctors, IPN reports.
The minister said the licensing of medical practice is an ordinary activity in the European states and such an assessment system will exclude toxic persons from the system.
“We will introduce a licensing system. Today, any doctor, since obtaining a diploma up to their last days or up to retirement, doesn’t have their work assessed. Everywhere in the world, each doctor once in five years should demonstrate the results of their work, the fact that they are of good faith and work on themselves, attend training courses, hadn’t been involved in cases of conflict and malpractice. A doctor’s file is compiled. An assessment is carried out once in five years. The person doesn’t need to be assessed by a commission, as many from the medical system imagine. But if the person didn’t confirm the right to practice during the immediate period, a conclusion will exist and the person will be retrograded and asked to attend training courses paid with own money. I don’t think the system will lose. When there is someone who brings a dose of noxiousness in the system, the absence or presence of the given person does not make a big difference. The system is usually built on professionals with skills and capacities,” Ala Nemerenco stated in the program “Reflection Points” on Vocea Basarabiei channel.
The minister noted that the number of hospitals in Moldova is much too high against the size of the population and most of the medical institutions have outdated infrastructure. The transfer of district hospitals under the Ministry of Health will enable to reorganize and modernize these. Also, the building of two new regional hospitals will offer the patients in northern and southern Moldova increased access to medical services of a high quality.
“We have nine municipal hospitals, 11 republican hospitals, 34 district hospitals. We have many hospitals and a total number of 17,000 beds. The analyses we carried out showed that half of them work inefficiently. The bed occupancy rate is of 50%, which means we pump money into the air, for heating and electricity. The infrastructure is of a bad quality and large. We now aim to build two district hospitals in Balti and Cahul. These hospitals will deconcentrate highly-qualified services in Chisinau so that we offer access to the population in the northern and southern districts to complex surgical services, cancer treatment procedures so that the people do not come to Chisinau from far away,” said Ala Nemerenco.
Recently, the PAS parliamentary majority amended the law on health protection to allow transferring district hospitals from the management of district councils under the Ministry of Health. The goal of the reform is to increase investments in district hospitals and to offer patients access to medical services of a high quality.
