About 25 counties currently have no radiotherapist, and others have only one oncologist per tens of thousands of inhabitants, according to an investigation of Digi24.Ĭiuhodaru proposes modular multifunctional medical centres with EU funds to readdress the lack of facilities and professionals. Many hospitals in the country also face a shortage of basic materials and essential medicines, including for cancer, and doctors are forced to send more severe cases to hospitals in university cities. Citizens need quality medical services and safer hospitals,” said Ciucă on 25 April after visiting a hospital in Iaşi. “The hospital infrastructure in Romania needs investments and equipment at the highest standards. “The drive for doctors to work in the countryside is given not only by the fact that they have an equipped office, but we have to find solutions that address their families as well, which means access to education for the children of these families of doctors or nurses and, last but not least, a living standard that will allow them to practice without worries”, Rafila said.Īlong the same lines, Romanian PM Nicolae Ciucă recognises the country’s health infrastructure issues. The health minister expressed hopes that the regional problems related to the health care human resources will be solved by 2030.Īmong other initiatives, a pilot project will soon be developed to improve living conditions and accessibility in rural areas to attract health workers. With the support of the WHO, Romania adopted in 2022 its first strategy regarding health workforce development. Three counties have less than 300 doctors, and ten counties have less than 500. “In these university areas, there are enough doctors, but not in the rest of the country. Bucharest, Dolj, Timiş, Cluj, Mureş and Iasi. Over 50% of doctors are concentrated in the university areas, i.e. The President of the College of Physicians in Romania, Daniel Coriu, claims that there are two ”countries”, one with an excess of doctors and the other without doctors. However, these figures include doctors, dentists and pharmacists who are citizens of Romania, other EU member states, and third countries. In 20, 5,188 health workers requested certificates of good standing issued by the Romanian College of Physicians and necessary to work abroad: 2,173 in 2020 and 3,015 in 2019, according to the Ministry of Health.
However, the authorities do not know exactly how many doctors have left the country since joining the EU in 2007.
Brussels urged to address EU health workforce ‘ticking bomb’Īn increasingly disproportional migration of health workers within the EU has resulted in a workforce crisis as several member states are faced with staff shortages putting health systems’ sustainability at risk.Ĭurrently, there are around 65,000 doctors in Romania, more than in 2018 when the country decided to substantially increase health workers’ wages, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
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