In corrective movements, the location of the leading YOU hundreds doctorswho, although they have completed their period of specialization, remain in hospitals with extensions, Ministry of Health. The order was passed just a week ago and has already caused huge unrest in hospitals, as well as the intervention of the Ministry NHS physician representatives (ENAP, OENGE).

By this special provision, the period of stay of doctors without a specialty in their specialist position until it is closed by the next specialist doctor is limited to four semesters. Before and prior to this provision, there was no limit to the number of semesters during which an extension could be repeated. The regulation provides that physicians in this category, who have already served with an extension of more than four semesters, are required to retire after the completion of the current six-month extension.

Such as refers to “K” this year Federation of Hospital Physicians (OENGE), neurosurgeon Panos Papanicolaou, only in the hospital of Nice, 25 doctors risk being immediately dismissed because of this situation. “The duty of the pulmonology department is mainly covered by “long-term” pathologists and general medicine specialists,” he notes and adds that, according to calculations, if the provision is implemented, at least 350-400 doctors will immediately leave. NHS.

The ministry’s counterargument is that the restriction on the stay of physicians who have completed their full term of residency and have not been awarded a title is intended to avoid circumventing the extraordinary nature of these extensions. As an example, ministry officials cite a doctor over 70 who remains in that status with the National Health Service for seven years. However, Deputy Health Minister Mina Gaga told K, hospitals have already been instructed not to proceed with the provision due to the filing of an amendment to a pending bill that would give these doctors time limits. stay at SSY to take the professional title exams.