Authorities want to motivate young specialists to stay home by reforming primary medicine

Chisinau, 30 July /MOLDPRES/- By reforming the primary care system, the authorities aim to give priority to motivating young specialists to stay at home and to practice freely and independently, so that patients are satisfied. Minister of Health, Labor and Social Protection Svetlana Cebotari made the statementin an interview given exclusively for MOLDPRES.

The minister said some doctors support the reform proposed by the authorities, and others are reluctant. "The most trained are the doctors from the villages because they have already gone through all the difficulties, they are open and they want this reform. At the same time, the most reluctant are the doctors from Chisinau and Balti ", Cebotari said.

The minister also said that young professionals are the ones who are most waiting for the reform because the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu" has international training standards, with experience exchanges in other developed countries where the practice of the family doctor has been applied for a long time and has proven to be effective.

The law on the amendment and completion of some legislative acts, regulating the activity of the Primary Health Care, by establishing "Free Practice of the Family Physician", was adopted by the Parliament on Friday. It provides that family doctors will be able to open individual offices.

(Reporter N. Sandu, editor L. Alcază)