The national radio stations and TV channels will broadcast social videos with the aim of informing the population about the exodus of medical personnel abroad. In the municipalities of Chisinau and Balti and in districts, there will be placed posters showing the past and the present of the Moldovan doctors and nurses who went to work in Europe. The actions form part of an information campaign that the Ministry of Health will carry out for a year, until next September, IPN reports.
The campaign “Moldova is healthier with every medical worker at home” forms part of a project to modernize the medical institutions and to bring back the medical personnel from abroad, which is supported financially by the EU with €2 million.
In a conference held to launch the campaign, Deputy Minister of Health Mihai Ciobanu said that 80% of the money allocated within the project is intended for improving the performance of the medical staff, while 20% is designed for the medical institutions.
Ala Nemerenko, project coordinator at the World Health Organization in Moldova, said the Ministry of Health pledged to modify the pay grades for medical staff and to contribute to the improvement of the provided medical services by introducing performance indicators for doctors and medical institutions.
The campaign represents only one of a series of activities that will be carried out, said the head of the WHO in Moldova Jarno Habicht. Among them is the taking of steps to obtain the recognition of the diplomas issued by Moldovan colleges and universities abroad, signing of agreements on the circulation of medical staff, improvement of the health system, offering of all doctors the possibility of returning to the system after taking refresher courses.
According to the Ministry of Health, more than 40% of the medical personnel in Moldova left the national health system over the last 20 years. A large part of them went abroad and work in other areas.
