30 thousand lei for young doctors to work in villages

Young medical specialists will get significant benefits on state’s behalf, once with the distribution of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection for the three-year activity in rural areas. Therefore, the doctors will get 30,000 lei, and the nurses – 24,000 lei. These benefits were set by the Government on Wednesday meeting, June 21, by the changes made to the Law on Health Protection, approved in March 1995, and shall enter in force after passing the Parliament approval. The minister Ion Ababii said that providing these benefits should attract the young specialists in rural areas, dealing now with a deep crisis of medical specialists. In the minister’s opinion, this money is directed to creating working conditions of young doctors in the rural area, especially for rent payment. Providing these subventions by the state to young specialists is, in Ababii’s opinion „a natural thing”, practiced in the numerous countries of the world. In order to pay the benefits to young medical specialists, there are planned about 3,8 million lei in the state budget for 2007, in 2008 – about 7,7 milliopn lei, in 2009 – about 11,6 million lei. The first 7,500 lei will be paid after the first month of activity in the villages; the rest of the money will be divided equally at the beginning of every year. The last year, in order to stimulate the employment of young specialists in rural areas, there were made similar changes in the Law on Education, stipulating benefits of 30,000 lei for the graduates of higher level pedagogic institutions, and 24,000 – of those of the medium vocational institutions, choosing to work in the villages. Now in RM, there are 27 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants. The situation in Chisinau is better, 68 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, instead, in certain raions, this figure is 5,1. Of the total number of graduates of medical institutions of 2005, about 40% left to work in villages.