City Hall decides to maintain medical personnel in education institutions

Nurses will continue working in the pre-higher education institutions of Chisinau. The Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) decided on April 11 to allot over MDL 660 thousand for 107 nurses needed for the schools in Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. At the end of the 2005-2006 school year, the National Company of Medical Insurances (NCMI) insisted on dismissing the medical personnel from the pre-higher education institutions and to transfer the nurses to the Centres of family doctors, justifying by the fact that the medical assistance offered in the same territory is being doubled. According to NCMI, the same number of population from the same territory is served by two nurses – in the territory and in the education institution located in the same territory, so that NCMI is forced to pay the both nurses. The issue was discussed by the Government, which decided to apply a moratorium on this decision, but after a short period the discussion upon the dismissal of the nurses from schools was renewed. Head of the Department for Education, Youth and Sports of the municipality of Chisinau Tatiana Nagnibeda says it is impossible to leave the schools without nurses, especially during outbreaks. In her words, otherwise it will be impossible to offer first medical aid to students and to perform the necessary medical control of the special groups for the Physical Training, examining students during immunisation, performing anti-epidemic activities etc. “The municipal councillors have even decided to introduce nurses in the staff of the education institutions, but this issue has to be decided by the Ministry of Health”, Nagnibeda said. The institutions with more than 750 students will benefit from the services of two nurses. The schools with up to 250 students will share a single nurse for two schools, from 251-500 students – a single nurse, from 501-750 students – one full-time nurse and one working at two schools.