The mother and the child are back in Kapan now. Despite Henry has been discharged from the hospital, the health problem may return at any moment; so, Henry remains under doctors\u2019 control at the Arabkir MC.<\/p>\n
Nephrologist is not the only specialist required at the Kapan MC. Henry, 4, too, is neither the first, nor the last patient to be rushed to a hospital in Yerevan some 300 kilometers away from his home, because of the lack of specialists in his hometown.<\/p>\n
Further yet, the lack of specialists is not the only problem persisting in regional hospitals. Senior level medical workers are mostly available in Yerevan. According to statistical data, there are 59 doctors per 10 000 people in Yerevan; the ratio in the regions is 3.5 times higher: only 17 doctors are available for the same number of population.<\/p>\n
To fill the vacancies in regional medical centers, the Ministry of Health has started a clinical residency program at the Yerevan State Medical University since 2011; the program envisions tuition-free education in the departments of the university that train specialists in the disciplines most demanded in the regions.<\/p>\n Kristine Gyurjyan, the head of the Staff Management Department of the Ministry of Health, says the vacancies in the regions are announced twice a year in order to get a full picture regarding the most needed specializations. \u201cWe provide targeted clinical residency vacancies specifically for those disciplines, which are most wanted in the regions,\u201d says Ms. Gyurjyan in a conversation with Ampop Media<\/strong><\/em>, adding that as part of the program the ministry signs a contract with the students, who apply for the mentioned places at the university.<\/p>\n The contract envisions an obligation on the part of the graduating student to work in a regional hospital for at least three-year period, as designated by the ministry. The statistical data shared by the provost for postgraduate and continuous education of the Yerevan State Medical, Garnik Avetisyan, shows an interesting trend: this year alone, there have been 42 students majoring in pediatrics for their clinical residency program.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Ministry of Health has announced 22 vacancies for pediatricians on its official website as of the month of February, which could be filled shortly. The Muratsan University Hospital alone accepts some 1300 to 1400 children a week, which come from all over Armenia,\u201d Avetisyan says. He adds, though, that the creation of work conditions more attractive than those offered in the capital is an urgency to meet the need of specialists in the regions.<\/p>\n Gyurjyan, too, tends to think that the reluctance of the young professionals to work in the regions has social underpinning. She believes, a young professional, especially the one with a family, looks for some satisfying living conditions and some interesting pastime options in order to agree to live away from the capital.<\/p>\n There were times when doctors were assigned to remote regions for a 5-year term; today, though, the numbers of vacancies have grown, whereas the contract period has dropped to 3 years.<\/p>\n \u201cOur conversations with doctors prove 5 years are too long period for them, especially for those, who consider moving from Yerevan. People want some pastime [after work, which is hard to find] in the regions, and they face problems of organizing their routine. Those problems need to be solved when offering more attractive work and life conditions,\u201d the representative of the Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n Another program, relaunched by the Ministry of Healthcare in 2020, which has the purpose of filling in vacancies in regional medical centers, offers more or less attractive terms of employment. The program is partially shown on the picture.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ampop.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kadrer2.png\")
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\nGyurjyan assures the program helps fill some 30 to 40 % of the vacancies in the regions.<\/p>\nOffering attractive terms of work in regional medical centers<\/h3>\n
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