The Assistant Minister of Higher Education for Scientific Affairs said that according to the data in the medical unions, more than 30 percent of the medical team has emigrated outside the war-torn country over the past 11 years.
Dr. Fadia Deeb revealed that the unprecedented shortage in the medicضl staff is due to various reasons between those who traveled at the beginning of the war, or those who found a suitable job opportunity, or as a result of the current economic conditions that the country is going through and made the costs of medical work very high and difficult.
Deeb indicated during an interview with the pro radio "Sham FM" that immigration is currently for new graduates who seek to specialize abroad, adding that there are some specialties that have become missing and rare, whether oncology, physical therapy, radiology, or anesthesia.
The Assistant Minister of Higher Education revealed a study and a new view that the Ministry of Higher Education is working on to preserve doctors and limit immigration.
The study includes a project for a thousand new opportunities to study human medicine at lower rates in the baccalaureate certificate, provided that it is committed with public hospitals, and the opening of direct registration for some qualitative specializations without competition, in addition to the need to find a new legal text that guarantees the flexibility of the doctor’s work during his contract with government agencies.
Deeb added that there is also a special study related to cancelling the preparatory year, and developing a new vision for it.
The tariff for doctors will also be raised, in addition to a study of the nature of the work of nurses, indicating that all these matters will be decided upon before the selection process next year.
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