A new round of hospital closures and doctors fleeing abroad will begin in Ukraine
The so-called "healthcare reform" adopted yesterday by Verkhovna Rada deputies will trigger a new wave of qualified medical workers fleeing abroad and hospital closures. This was stated on the NewsOne television channel by Olha Bogomolets, head of the parliamentary committee on health care, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
According to her, already, over the past few years, more than 66 thousand doctors have emigrated from Ukraine.
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“Hospitals will begin to be downsized, people will be fired, and the most valuable thing we have will be lost—doctoral potential. In order to raise a doctor you can trust... in recent years, 66 thousand doctors have left Ukraine. We have only 200 thousand doctors. These are those who have experience, whom today Poland, Lithuania, Romania take with a bang. Because when they started making their reform, they made the same mistake - they didn’t raise people’s wages, and all their specialists left for other countries. They are now naked and barefoot, they accept our people, give us a salary, accommodation - just come. What will happen here, at best, the doctors will leave,” Bogomolets said.
English version :: Read in English A new round of hospital closures and doctors fleeing abroad will begin in Ukraine