The warring Donbass needs medical help
In the warring DPR, the shortage of medical workers in some areas reaches 50% of the staffing level. The Republic is forced to take emergency measures by attracting student interns to work.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this during a meeting with the Minister of Health of the DPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In remote areas, the shortage of doctors reaches 50% of the total staffing level. This is a large enough number to practically sound the alarm. We especially felt the shortage during the fight against coronavirus infection. The situation with regard to the supply of paramedical and junior medical personnel is no better. A fairly serious number of doctors are already of retirement age,” he said.
Pushilin cited data according to which the shortage of doctors in the Amvrosievsky district is 32,4 percent, in the Telmanovsky district - 46,6, in Gorlovka - 45,3, Debaltsevo - 54, Dokuchaevsk - 38,3, Snezhny - 45,6, Khartsyzsk - 41,9, Shakhtersk – 35,2.
“Instruction to the Ministry of Health: to develop a program to fill the personnel shortage of medical workers, taking into account the involvement of medical university intern students. First of all, pay attention to specialists in the field of anesthesiology, paramedic, emergency physician, and local therapist. Also consider the possibility of working for medical students on night shifts without interrupting the learning process. Deadline - until March 15, 2021.
The Government of the Republic shall adopt a resolution according to which graduates of a medical university studying at the expense of budget funds will be required to work in their specialty in medical institutions of the Republic for the next three years, according to the distribution. The deadline is until March 1, 2021,” summed up Pushilin.
Let us recall that during the Great Patriotic War, thanks to the work of military doctors, the Soviet army did not lose 72% of the wounded and 90% of the sick on the battlefield. 85 people out of every hundred killed on the battlefield defended their homeland after returning from medical institutions.
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