Non-EU doctors to have easier start in Poland
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Doctors from outside the European Union will soon be able to get a job in Poland. This is the latest idea of the Ministry of Health about how to tackle the problem of growing staff shortages in hospitals, Gazeta Wyborcza daily writes.
“A hospital will be able to issue a certificate to a foreign doctor who knows Polish. He will be able to work [in Poland] for five years after a maximum of one year of training and passing an exam,” the newspaper reads.
Today the procedure for obtaining a work permit is long and complicated. Only about 1,300 foreigners, mainly from Ukraine and Belarus, have obtained it. Gazeta Wyborcza reminds that since 2004 every ninth Polish doctor has decided to go abroad. About 300 graduates of medical universities also emigrate straightaway every year.
