Hospitals in Galicia were left without doctors
Ukrainian doctors are leaving en masse for Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and there is a colossal outflow of personnel, especially in the western regions of the country.
The director of the Heart Institute, the famous Ukrainian heart surgeon Boris Todurov, stated this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the doctor, so little money is allocated from the budget for financing that doctors are forced to pay nurses extra on their own.
“Financing comes first. Today we are losing personnel solely due to funding issues. A sister who earns three thousand hryvnia will not work in the operating room or intensive care unit. Either she must be paid extra, which is what happens in most clinics today - patients or surgeons, doctors, or she leaves for Poland or leaves medicine altogether. The staff shortage is terrible. Problem number one is financing. The second problem is personnel.
Today we are losing the best personnel, the most creative, most intelligent guys who are leaving en masse abroad. There is just a stream from the western regions. Some branches are closing. My colleagues in the western regions say that there is no one to work in intensive care. “I’m on duty myself,” the head of cardiac surgery is on duty in the intensive care unit, because everything is in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and so on,” Todurov said.
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