Healthcare issues were discussed in the course of the meeting with the President

The President held a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Healthcare and medical institutions of the republic. It was attended by Speaker of Parliament Alexander Korshunov, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Budget and Finance Viktor Guzun and Chairman of the relevant Parliamentary Committee on Healthcare Sergei Cheban. They discussed the possibility of increasing salaries for medical personnel during the meeting. They cited the Republican Clinical Hospital as an example, where a salary pilot project is currently operating. So, the Republican Clinical Hospital carried out optimization and switched to a new financing format from July 1 of this year.

However, serious preparatory and calculation work was carried out. The bed capacity and 202 staffing units were reduced by 80 units (13.4%). An important aspect: they removed part-time jobs and did not fire people. Moreover, 46 specialists have been hired (33 before the launch of the pilot project, 13 after) since January of this year. As a result of innovations, the salaries of doctors increased by an average of 63% (from 4417 to 7220 rubles), nursing staff by 89% (from 2777 to 5275 rubles), and junior health workers by 64.8% (from 2261 to 3726 rubles). There is practically no outflow of personnel at this stage. This problem was very acute recently. Specialists left for Moldova. Now the level of salaries of Republican Clinical Hospital employees is as close as possible to the indicators of state medical institutions of the neighboring state.

They discussed which medical institution will follow the example of the Republican Clinical Hospital. Not only medical employee desire was taken into consideration, but also the capabilities of the state, for which the implementation of pilot projects entails additional expenses. The Republican Center for Mother and Child, a psychiatric hospital, and the Mother and Child Center in Bendery, City Hospital of Bendery, Rybnitsa, Slobodzeya, and Grigoriopol Central Republican Hospitals were considered. All these medical institutions have an acute staff shortage. This problem can be solved by increasing wages for specialists.

A preliminary decision was made as a result of the meeting: pilot projects will start in two Bendery medical institutions and the central hospital of Rybnitsa. Detailed calculations will be carried out for the objects in order to make a final decision.

The estimated launch time of the next pilot project is April 1, 2024. The final decision will be made based on the results of the analytical work.

Based on materials of the press service of the PMR President