2 minutes agoMost Albanian doctors want to leave the country
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)In Tirana, the association “Together for Life” announced that a large number of doctors confirmed during a study that they are ready to leave Albania due to difficult working conditions. The study shows that doctors feel underrated and overloaded in their work. The Society “Together for Life” published today one [...]
The Association “Together for Life” published today a study on the departure of doctors from Albania, according to which nearly 80 percent of the doctors surveyed are ready to leave their homeland.
The study supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation found that 24% of doctors are ready to leave immediately, while 54% would leave, if given the opportunity, broadcast America's “Voice”.
University centres doctors are more likely to leave the country, and fewer in regional hospitals, according to polls. Nearly 40 percent of scientific doctors consider their departure from Albania important.
Most doctors in university hospitals claim that they have significant work shortcomings, that they feel underrated, overworked, and under stress.
Albania has, on average, only one doctor for 1,000 people, while the biggest difficulties to receive treatment are in remote areas on broken geographical terrain.
Doctors claim to a large extent in polls that they are insecure at the workplace, and that they are overly criticized.
Doctors claim that they themselves have lost confidence in the health system so they want to leave Albania for professional and economic reasons.
They estimate that the biggest problems in the Albanian health system are bureaucracy in management, financial uncertainty and non-finance to increase the quality of services.
So the lack of doctors has affected both regional hospitals and university centres in recent years.
Most doctors rank at the worst-paid group in the health system, while stressing that the future in Albania is not safe.
