With 1200 euros in Athens, with 6,000 in Nicosia!
Thursday 24 February 2022, 00:00
More than 17,000 doctors have left Greece in recent years to offer their services to citizens of other countries. The Greek State spent significant resources on their education, but the Greek taxpayers who paid this tax with their taxes, saw this “investment” to be received, finally, by others! It is simple! Doctors in Greece are paid with crumbs. Literally! And as long as this happens, their wave of migration will continue.
We complain that our public hospitals do not have anesthesiologists and surgeons. Correctly. But how will the other person go to a public hospital to work when offered a salary between 1,100 and 2,000 euros? At the same time, salaries in Cyprus are between 6,000 and 8,000 euros, in Germany 4,000 – 7,000 euros. In Germany, too, the salary of the director of a clinic easily exceeds 180,000 euros. In other countries, such as England, doctors are given the opportunity to practice some days and freelance professions in order to increase their income.
Do not get into the discussion because the doctor should be paid better than a PPC employee, for example. No, because PPC employees do not offer services, but because they can not be compared to those of doctors. In addition, to become a doctor you have to dedicate half your life to your education. Literally again! Doctors are entitled to better pay. And if we do not want to understand it, then the Germans or the British will “grab” them. The free market provides solutions.
In Greece, the problem exists with NSS doctors. These are the “thrown” and for them a solution must be found. The university positions are amazing, as the Deputy Minister and Gaga recently said in Parliament, and that makes sense! University doctors have more rights than their NSS colleagues. the right to practice a profession, as do military doctors. So should we offer the same “opportunities” to other doctors? Do we need to find ways to increase the income of NSS doctors? Let’s say the afternoon surgeries, as the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris said.
What we need to understand is that if we do not do something immediately, then the number of new doctors who will follow the flow of immigration will increase, seeking (and rightly) their fortune abroad. Thus, the hospitals and especially those of the region will not fill their gaps. The NSS needs support. And resources. The money tree has not been discovered, but money must be found in this case. And in need let them cut from somewhere else.
Thanasis Mavridis
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