Rafila's warning to the Government: unblock hiring in Health or a new exodus of doctors will follow

The former Minister of Health, Alexandru Rafila, calls for the unblocking of hiring doctors in the healthcare system, drawing attention to the danger of witnessing a new exodus of young specialists for whom the state has otherwise spent significant funds to train for 10-11 years.

"Now, there are a few thousand young doctors who have passed their specialty exams and from January 1 will become specialists... We need to create positions for these doctors. Because if there is a blockage of positions in the healthcare system, ... they have finished and we will have three thousand doctors that we have trained and they cannot get hired. So what will they do?", says Rafila. "The government needs to make a decision, to allow the hiring of these doctors who have become specialists. Otherwise, they will leave the country," estimates Rafila.

"So we prepare them for six plus four or six plus five years and after you prepare them for 10-11 years, you don't offer them a job where they can stay. That's not reform, it's counter-reform," appreciates Rafila, in a podcast "Informed People" moderated by journalist Mădălina Dobrovolschi.