The issue of ensuring human resources in healthcare uniformly at the country level is "extremely important", declared on Tuesday the president of the Romanian College of Physicians, Catalina Poiana, on the occasion of the launch of the Guide for local actions: Solutions for Human Resources in Healthcare.
The guide launched by the Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization, was developed within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Poiana specified that Romania is slightly below the European level in terms of the number of doctors per 100,000 inhabitants, the problem being the imbalance between the areas of the country.
"The imbalance between various areas of the country is great and this must be corrected, because the Romanian patient, regardless of which area of the country he was born in, has the right to benefit from similar health services. (...) The issue of human resources remains an extremely important problem. We talk about the need for doctors in rural areas, we talk about the need for doctors in small urban areas and we always ask ourselves why we don't have doctors in these areas," explained Catalina Poiana.
According to her, in order to remain in an area, doctors need infrastructure that allows them to carry out their activity at the level at which they were trained, predictability, financing, but also appropriate legislation that regulates the activity.
"Another element that (...) makes a doctor not stay in one place is professional safety. (...) The second aspect, when I say professional safety, refers to the legislative framework that provides professional safety to the doctor and equity in the doctor-patient relationship. It is about the legislation that regulates medical activity," according to the quoted source.
In his opinion, the Malpractice Law, in its current form, "does not protect the doctor nor does it respond to the patient's interests." "Basically, the only beneficiaries at this moment from the way the Malpractice Law is organized and the danger of it being rewritten (this law) were the insurers, the insurance companies," said Poiana.
She accused the fact that doctors are classified as civil servants.
Catalina Poiana believes that it is necessary to change the legislation so that it regulates the medical profession as a liberal one.
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