Health units will mandatorily include in the on-call line, upon request, resident doctors who are undergoing specialty training within them, doubling the on-call doctor and performing on-call duties to complete the normal duration of working hours, announced on Thursday the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, who announced that a project in this regard has been made transparent.
"Residents are not an annex of the specialist, the primary care physician or the 'professor'. They are the future of the health system and those we rely on for an honest construction, which no longer takes into account the past, but the present and the future. We have amended the Order of the Minister of Health No. 870, currently transparent on the Ministry of Health's website, to correct an injustice that could no longer be ignored in the way in which the work of resident doctors is recognized and paid. Resident doctors, during the period of training in the specialty, will be mandatorily included in the on-call line, in the health unit where they carry out their internship, doubling the on-call doctor and performing on-call duties to complete the normal duration of working time," the Minister of Health wrote on Facebook.
Thus, starting with the first year, residents can be included, upon request, in the on-call line in the specialty in which they are trained, outside of normal working hours, with the exception of the first line, and the activity will be carried out under the responsibility and supervision of the on-call physician.
At the same time, the minister states, starting with the third year, residents can enter, also upon request, including the first line of duty, outside the normal schedule, respecting the limits of competence and under the supervision of a specialist or primary care physician, designated by the head of the department.
"On-call shifts performed outside of normal working hours will be mandatorily paid by the healthcare unit in which they are performed, in compliance with legal provisions. They are the generation that will carry this profession forward, and the healthcare system needs them. (...) The resident physician is neither a salaryman, nor at anyone's disposal, nor a "filler" when the on-call lines cannot be covered. The resident physician is an important pawn in the functioning of the current system and, more importantly, a pawn without which the healthcare system of the future cannot exist," Alexandru Rogobete also wrote.
Comentează