In five years, there will be a shortage: The Flight of Doctors and Nurses Continues

More than 180 doctors have left Kosovo for Western countries. As a result, within five years there will be a serious shortage of these professionals.

In addition to the departure of doctors, nurses of various threshing grounds are leaving the country, which through German companies are finding solutions to escape.

Albulen Shala, from “Comsense Kosova”, which deals with recruiting nurses, said the interest in leaving the country has increased in the last three months.

That is because of good work and living conditions.

The interest for young people has grown a lot, we've been doing this job for three years, but the last three months has increased interest. They are not just to learn the language, but they have learned the language themselves, so it shows that they have spent much time on the way to Germany. Where they go, they're different places, so in our concepts, they're right with choice”, she said of EO.

Although he says they operate a short time, most of the candidates cannot be taken. Other candidates, she says, have asked for additional items to be added.

They've come without knowing, without and after the work license you can't go, and it's been a process to get here, and now the first groups are ready and moving to Germany. It's very much added, over the last three months that the number has increased, both for nurses, but for other profiles we've been asking about and other profiles, it's about the current situation in Kosovo that we know is a little bit difficult. As far as interest is concerned, it's been every time, so we've had a lot of candidates but not that we can all deal with”.

Immune to that fact is not even doctors. Pelrat Sejdiu from the Oda of the Kosovo Doctors said the Kosovo doctors' departure trajector has increased markedly.

He for EO, has said that OPC forecasts that by the end of the year will leave 200 doctors can be exceeded.

She's the manager of the departure of colleagues who are leaving outside Kosovo. As of the end of last year, we have 150 doctors, so far we have 185 doctors, and we expect that we're approaching that prediction we've had at the beginning of the year that's about 200 doctors leaving, which is a big number, and that's worrying, probably not at the moment that most people are unemployed but that worry starts growing when we see that they're leaving special. At present, it cannot cause problems, but after five years, however, that it is because these have had to replace us who leave”, Sejdiu said, as he added that it creates a bad image for the coming generations.

Sejdiu has also talked about how he should be undertaken by the government to cut the outgoing trend from Kosovo. He has said that the peace law would reduce that number at all.

We gave our reports a few years ago with some of the problems that the minister has to deal with, and it's been the evacuation every time, and we've proposed it in the changing bill, even in the latter. Of course I do. Because in polls like the reason it's coming out is also low wages. So with these salaries they don't see perspective”, Sejdiu said. /eo