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An analysis by CERGAS' Luca Brusati on medical education in Moldova, presented to the Prime Minister and the Health Minister, highlights the need for better planning

A study by Luca Brusati reckons that Moldovan taxpayers spend $1.5 mln per-year to train health professionals that, at the end of their educational path, migrate abroad or find a job in Moldova in a sector other than the health industry: the brain drain affects two new doctors out of three and one nurse out of three. Brusati, senior researcher at Bocconi's Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS) presented at a meeting with Prime Minister Iurie Leanca and Health Minister Andrei Usatii in Chisinau the volume The Costs of Training Health Professionals in the Republic of Moldova, which summarizes the results of a research conducted on behalf of the World Health Organization.

The study allowed then to evaluate the cost of the brain drain of Moldovan health specialists who migrate abroad in search of a job and to shed light on the weaknesses of the system that selects who's going to undergo a medical training, the mechanisms that guarantee the right to study and the funding of higher education providers.

"The main trouble", Brusati, said "is a badly designed incentives system, which funds with public money the training of professionals that Moldovan job market can't absorb. The tax payers are burdened with expenses that will benefit Russian and Western employers".

"The cost for the taxpayer that Brusati's study reveals", the Health Minister said, "spurs the institutions to reinforce the mechanism of human resources planning and to create the conditions to allow Moldovans to find occupation in their country".

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