Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Monday, at the six-month stocktaking report, that the Executive has increased healthcare and education salaries, adding that the incomes of doctors are beginning to be comparable to those in the European Union.
"In the field of healthcare, certainly the most important measure has been the steady increase in the salaries of doctors. (...) Increases are much higher than 100pct. This Government is certainly the only one that has achieved such high rises of the income of those who ensure our health and save our life.
If we add the other bonuses and pay for on-call duty, we can say that Romanian doctors' incomes start to be comparable to those in the EU. Thus, the exodus of the young doctors has been largely stopped and we have more and more signals regarding the return to the country of those who left," Dancila said, according to Agerpres.
She mentioned that the Executive also considered the endowment of hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment.
"Having well-trained doctors is in vain if they do not have modern equipment to establish a correct diagnosis or to do medical interventions. Practically, in H1 2018 we purchased 16 CT scanners, 24 magnetic resonance imaging units, 8 cervical cancer screening units, 21 medical imaging storage systems and 51 pieces of intensive care equipment. They are purchased and are to be installed," Dancila said.
As to the field of education, the prime minister said that in one and a half year, the teachers' incomes increased by some 40pct.
Viorica Dancila said that there were cases where salaries increased by 23pct - 25pct, mentioning that these increases are added to the successive pay rises that took place last year after the current coalition came to power.
"In fact, in a year and a half, the teachers' net incomes rose by about 40pct," Dancila said.
The prime minister also presented the investments in the field of education.
"As far as education infrastructure is concerned, we have presented the objectives completed in H1 2018: 145 modernized education units and 45 daycares and kindergartens built from ground up. Many others will be finished this year," the prime minister said.
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