Río Negro: We are worried about the lack of doctors and they are turning to professionals in Venezuela

Generational renewal and lack of interest to settle in small, distant or small cities demanding. For these two factors, in the province of Río Negro suffer from the drought of doctors in almost all towns and villages. Therefore, the local government has launched an appeal that goes beyond the limits of national universities and extends to foreigners, especially Venezuelans.

According to official sources confirmed, the Ministry of Health of Rio Negro has to fill 60 positions of different specialties: general medicine, pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics, intensive care for children, general surgery, neonatology, in various hospitals.

"We need young people who come with the ability to make guards, who have this vocation, which makes the hospital special public," says Daniel Aroca, secretary of the hospital management of the province.

For general medicine, which requires the most frequent consultation, they are needed throughout the Rio Negro. For some hospitals in particular, they need to strengthen the highly complex children's intensive care teams in Bariloche and General Roca. "These are the places where we have high technology and we have to concentrate trained teams," explained the official.

Neonatologists are the same at Bariloche, Cipoletti, Roca, Viedma; Choele Choel, San Antonio West, Colorado River, Cipoletti, Bariloche or El Bolsón

Of the 100 positions that Río Negro is expected to occupy over the next four months, they have found employees for only 40 of them. 39; employment. They say that "to be calm," they must complete another 60 positions. Wages, between the base salary and the most for the guards, are about $ 80,000

So they started a new management with the Ministry of Local Education, with the l & # 39; idea that there is some kind of benefit for foreign doctors. in Río Negro

According to official estimates, some 2,000 doctors have come from Venezuela in the last year and a half. Whatever the case may be, Aroca specifies that the examinations would be rigorous, with practical examinations and evaluations.

For general practice, the province needs doctors in Alto Valle, Villa Regina, the Colorado region of the United States. North, the unpopulated areas of the South Line, villages on the sidelines of Route 23, and a few posts in Bariloche and El Bolsón, which are not priority but to complete the equipment.

For gynecology and obstetrics there are vacancies in Cipoletti, where more than 1,000 births are practiced each year, and in Villa Regina, which records about 600 annual births.

In Rio Negro, they see the uprooting that involves living in one of their cities as a particular difficulty, but they also understand that the deficit is national.

The Ministry receives information by e-mail from [email protected] and [email protected]. It also resolves requests via phones + 54-2920-42-1543 or + 54-9-2920-65-1342.

Source: Infobae