A proposal to tighten requirements for staff at private medical centers has been sent back for revision. Health Minister Aliaksandr Khadzhaeu said this following a meeting with Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
The licensing law proposed increasing the required work experience for medical staff at private centers from three to seven years, as well as extending the requirement to hold a first professional qualification category to mid-level medical personnel.
“In my view, three years is quite a short period to gain the necessary clinical experience and learn to make the right decisions in an emergency. A significant amount of knowledge needs to be acquired over a certain period of time. It is not enough to acquire it; it also needs to be applied in practice,” Khadzhaeu explained.
According to him, the proposals have ultimately been sent for further consideration, including for public discussion.
“The head of state has set a very appropriate task, which is that we should not solve the issue superficially. We need to address it systematically. Additional public discussion is required, along with analytical data that will allow us to make a specific choice: does this proposal solve the problem we have set out to address, or should we propose a solution that will address this problem fundamentally?” Khadzhaeu said.
“We will try, within the shortest possible timeframe, to determine the directions and trends that we will propose for discussion and approval. A deadline of Jan. 1 has been set for correcting the situation that is currently causing concern, or providing a rationale for how it should be addressed,” he added, BelTA reports.
