The state is trying to solve the crisis with medical staff by offering higher pay. The specialists will receive about 2,330 BGN more than their income - or two and a half minimum wages.
The bonus will be for doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives. The project is for 170 specialists worth BGN 15 million and will last until 2028.
This was reported by focus-news.net.
The crisis with the lack of nurses and pediatricians is deepening more and more, namely it is one of the main problems in the construction of the future National Children's Hospital.
He is a specialist in pediatric pulmonology at Aleksandrovsk Hospital.
"I was never frightened by children, never frightened by children's crying, and I always came home at the end of a day's work day or night duty satisfied with what I had done. This feeling of fatigue is gone, this tension is gone," said Stanislav Georgiev, a specialist in "Pediatric Pulmonology". in "Alexandrovska" UMBAL.
And for a minute he did not hesitate to apply for the graduate project. Thus he becomes one of the nearly 90 doctors who join.
"I think it is good that the emphasis is already on more deficient specialties - pediatric pulmonology, pediatric cardiology and pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric endocrinology, and this additional material stimulation can encourage new colleagues who are yet to enter specialization to focus on these specialties," added Stanislav Georgiev to BNT.
The Ministry of Health reminds that this project is also for nurses and midwives, for which there are currently no applications.
"While specializing, they receive this additional funding, and the aim of the project is to attract new specialists to the specific specialties, that is, knowing that the given specialty is in short supply either at the regional level or at the national level, a candidate to become a specialist in it to receives project funding. The goal is precisely to attract more specialists in precisely these specialties and in the specific fields," commented Dr. Iskra Koleva, head of the "Education and Qualification" department. in the Ministry of Health.
Specialists will be incentivized with 2 and a half minimum wages during their specialization in addition to the income received. This is just one of the measures of the Ministry of Health in their attempts to solve the problem of lack of personnel.
"Within a few days, we will release the strategy for public discussion and notify the National Assembly of the implementation regarding its preparation. There, we have foreseen many more measures related to increasing the attractiveness of the profession, creating conditions for better wages, creating conditions for the distribution of the workload of these specialists", Galya Kondeva, Acting Minister of Health, also said.