PM says governance's priority No 1 to educate qualified teachers, physicians in Moldova

Chisinau, 7 December /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip and the entire cabinet of ministers today went to the central Orhei city. The local community home was too small for the large number of the district’s residents willing to discuss with the government’s representatives. People said that such a visit to the district by the entire governmental team had not been paid for 15 years, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.    

The PM reviewed the principal reforms of the government, among which: reorganization of the customs and fiscal services, government’s reform, reforms for the business environment, fiscal reform, pensions’ reform, as well as the law on wage payment in the budgetary sector, which provides for salary increases from 20 to 100 per cent for some categories of employees.   

„Our problems can be settled only by work and jointly. Let’s take off our coats to work, let us start working and begin making roads, schools, kindergartens, providing qualitative medical and educational services. And then people will not leave the country and those who left will return home. This is our vision and all our actions are oriented in this direction,” Pavel Filip said.   

Another important subject of the discussions regarded problems from the health system, including the lack of physicians in villages. To this end, the reform of the primary medical reform was approved, which will give family physicians possibility to work individually. The first physicians with individual practice will be selected in a short period and they will go to villages as yearly as in next January.

The prime minister stressed that people represented the most valuable resource of Moldova; thus, education is the priority No 1 for the government. “None school from the country will be closed and some of them will be reopened. We will come up with a clear-cut vision, so that we have functional schools, qualified teachers, as this is the future of Moldova. We must put emphasis on education and focus on industries with high value added,” the PM said.   

The participants in the meeting tackled more problems, among which the lack of water and sewerage systems, endowment of medical institutions with modern equipment, need to continue restoring local roads. All problems were noted and are to be systematized into an action plan, worked out by the State Chancellery jointly with the local public authorities.