Decision on increasing allowance for physicians, pharmacists due to work in villages to be published in Moldova's Official Journal

Chisinau, 20 February /MOLDPRES/ - Young specialists with medical and pharmaceutical education, employed in rural settlements, according to the distribution by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry, will benefit from increased one-off  allowances, reaching 120,000 lei, against 45,000 lei earlier. The cabinet’s decision to this effect will be published in the 21 February issue of the Official Journal (Monitorul Oficial).      

To make these increases, the government amended the methodology of providing facilities to this social category. Under the decision, the facilities for this social category will represent “the one-off allowance worth 120,000 lei for physicians and pharmacists and 96,000 lei for medical and pharmaceutical staff with vocational education, which is paid in three equal installments, amounting to 40,000 lei and, respectively, 32,000 lei, after the expiration of the first month of work and subsequently, at the end of each activity year.”   

Under a similar amendment from 2017, the one-off allowance stood at 45,000 lei for physicians and pharmacists and 36,000 lei for the medium medical and pharmaceutical personnel and was paid in three equal installments, worth 15,000 lei and, respectively 12,000 lei, following the expiration of the first month of work and subsequently, at the end of each activity year.”    

These measures are seen to “ensure the continuity in the management of human resources from the health sector nationally, the enhancing of the attractiveness for young specialists of the jobs from Moldova’s national public health system, will result in the employment of the medical personnel in the country’s national public health system.”    

The government plans to earmark financial means worth 48.7 million lei from the state budget for 1,260 beneficiaries, in order to pay the increased allowances.