Medical workers will enter into contracts with the Armed Forces of Ukraine for a year. This was announced by the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko on the air of the telecommunication on February 18.
According to him, the new mechanism assumes that doctors will work in military units during the year, after which they will be able to return to civilian hospitals. This will rot the staff and ensure stable functioning of both medical institutions and military hospitals.
At the same time, the minister stressed that women will not go to the front, and the main focus is on medical men.
The Ministry of Health also provides for the possibility of reservation of 50% of conscripted men in some medical institutions. This should help maintain the balance between the needs of civil medicine and the army.
"Our main task is to send experts to where they are most necessary. Cardiac surgeons and thoracic surgeons should work where they can save lives, not perform general medical responsibilities in military units," Lyashko explained.
According to him, the Ministry of Defense is currently working on a comprehensive issue of demobilization to ensure effective rotation of doctors and prevent a shortage of specialists in hospitals.
