Democratic Party proposes to de-bureaucratize physicians' work in Moldova

Chisinau, 20 March /MOLDPRES/ - The activity of the medical staff should be de-bureaucratized. The Health Ministry will come up with an action plan to this end, including against aggressions. The leader of Moldova’s Democratic Party (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, today made statements to this effect following the PDM weekly meeting.    

According to Plahotniuc, the Democrat MPs will speed up the adoption, in the final reading, of the law on toughening the sanctions for the aggression of medical employees.

“We demanded, back last week, an action plan from the Health Ministry, which, on the one hand, should protect physicians better during their work and on the other hand, should improve the attitude of physicians towards citizens. We want that situations like the one which has recently occurred, when a physician was aggressed, to never happen again, and when, nevertheless, such cases take place, the perpetrators must be necessarily punished,” Plahotniuc said.   

The PDM leader noted that he had asked the health minister to come up with concrete actions to de-bureaucratize the activity of the physicians, so that the latter have more time for patients.

Vlad Plahotniuc said that trainings of physicians should be held, meant to improve their attitude towards patients. He added that the results of these changes would be assessed based on opinion polls, as well as of calls made citizens to a special phone line of the Health Ministry.   

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)