Moldovan medical sector employees to receive higher salaries, depending on performances

Chisinau, 25 January /MOLDPRES/ - Employees of the medical sector will receive higher salaries, depending on the performances. A regulation on the payment of wages to employees from the public medical and sanitary institutions, a draft of which was put up for debates by the Health Ministry, contain provisions to this end. 

Under the document, "he present wage payment mechanism has become complicated in administration. The multitude of increases and additional payments to the salary do not show the real quality and volume of work carried out, is not based on performance (particularly in the hospital sector), does not render obvious the competence and does not contribute to motivating the health system staff. As a result, the inadequate wage payment leads to the maintenance of informal payments in the system."  

"According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at the European level, it was found out that, till 2020, the deficit of physicians, medical assistants, dentists and pharmacists will reach one million. The present problems affect Moldova too and create prerequisites for the medical employees to migrate to other state to profess, where the living and working conditions are better and the wages - higher. Therefore, the low salaries, unsatisfactory working conditions, migration of medical staff endanger the ensuring of residents' access to the quality medical assistance," an informative note annexed to the draft says.

The new wage payment mechanism is based on the quality of the carried out work. The salary revenue of the employees from the public medical and sanitary institutions, involved in the system of mandatory health insurances, will be made up of: the fixed part of the wage; variable part of the wage; other salary norms   and guarantees; material assistance. The variable part of the salary represents an extra payment to the fixed part of the salary, established for professional competences and at the level of fulfilling the performance indexes. Other salary norms and guarantees represent the increases of compensation for the work carried out in unfriendly conditions, as well as other minimum guarantees established by the state. 

The expenses for the enforcement of the unveiled salary increases will be covered from resources of the National Health Insurances Company, as well as other income sources allowed by the legislation.

Under the draft, "for 2016, the fund for the payment of current medical services (basic fund) is scheduled to be increased by 10.6 per cent or about 520 million lei (about 24 million euros), of which more than a half of the money, about 300 million lei, will be used to remunerate the work."

(Reporter D. Moraru, editor L. Alcaza)