The Medical Federation of the Interior (FEMI) stated that the bill so that newly received doctors and specialists can attend public hospitals in their first two years “is not an adequate solution”.
The deputy’s proposal Federico Preve aims to provide greater coverage to the “care needs determined by the competent health authority” and “promote equity, quality of care and universal access to health care.”
The implementation of this project would reach the “professionals who complete the postgraduate training in medical specialties and other health professionals that complete undergraduate, postgraduate or specialization training,” said the representative of the Frente Amplio.
Preve, a neurologist, suggests that professionals meet a “minimum weekly workload of four hours and a maximum of 16 hoursfor a period of two years.”
While FEMI affirms that “the proposed tool, based on obligationis not an adequate solution for a structural problem“.
“The difficulty in locating specialists in the interior does not respond to a lack of doctorsbut to the concentration of the formation of specialties in Montevideothe limited supply of residences in the interior and the differences in working conditions and professional development,” explains the institution’s statement.
“The imposition of a mandatory exercise period does not guarantee the sustained establishment of professionals nor the quality of care, which could also generate counterproductive effects in the medium and long term,” according to FEMI.
Instead, the federation understands that “solutions must focus on strengthening the training of specialists in the interiorimprove working conditions and generate real incentives for settling.”
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Although the project establishes a minimum and maximum hourly loadthe definitive hourly demand will be determined by the regulations of the law, as long as the project is approved.
The “distance that exists between the place of provision of the service and the capital of the country“.
On the other hand, the project establishes that it will be the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) the one that determines the “care needs of each specialty”.
This mandatory It will not apply to those who have already received it prior to the enactment of the law.although it will be for those who begin their postgraduate training later.
The MSP “will not register or enable” the title for the exercise of the profession for those who do not comply with the provisions of the project, which will just begin its parliamentary process.
