Crisis: 4,000 Greek doctor flee country, survey shows
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, JANUARY 31 - Many Greek doctors, fearing a dead-end future with pay cuts and limited opportunities, are leaving to find jobs and better life in other countries, GreekReporter website writes citing recently-published statistics.
The wave of migration that began in 2010 has now grown into a tsunami that leads day by day more and more doctors into fleeing Greece in hope of finding a job or complete their training/speciality elsewhere. The favored choices are northern European countries or the United Arab Emirates. The Medical Association of Athens (ISA) alone has witnessed 4,000 doctors leaving Greece within the past three years. More particularly, 62.5% of the migrated doctors are skilled professionals who have completed their education and specialty and are desperately looking for employment. While the National Healthcare Service (ESY) and the private sector seem unable to absorb the new qualified doctors due to the ongoing crisis, doctors are let with very few career choices to make. ISA official data reveal the extent of the phenomenon in numbers: in 2010 835 doctors (318 unskilled and 517 skilled) left the ISA, while in 2011 1,280 doctors followed their colleagues example. In 2012, another 1,808 doctors left the Association (642 unskilled and 1,166 skilled). From 2007 to 2009, some 1,635 doctors in total have left the biggest medical association of the country.
The wave of migration that began in 2010 has now grown into a tsunami that leads day by day more and more doctors into fleeing Greece in hope of finding a job or complete their training/speciality elsewhere. The favored choices are northern European countries or the United Arab Emirates. The Medical Association of Athens (ISA) alone has witnessed 4,000 doctors leaving Greece within the past three years. More particularly, 62.5% of the migrated doctors are skilled professionals who have completed their education and specialty and are desperately looking for employment. While the National Healthcare Service (ESY) and the private sector seem unable to absorb the new qualified doctors due to the ongoing crisis, doctors are let with very few career choices to make. ISA official data reveal the extent of the phenomenon in numbers: in 2010 835 doctors (318 unskilled and 517 skilled) left the ISA, while in 2011 1,280 doctors followed their colleagues example. In 2012, another 1,808 doctors left the Association (642 unskilled and 1,166 skilled). From 2007 to 2009, some 1,635 doctors in total have left the biggest medical association of the country.
Crisis: Spain, Catalonia asks for new 9 bln bailout
The money will be used to pay debts and meet deficit
(ANSAmed) - MADRID - The government of Catalonia has asked the Spanish central government for an extra 9,073 billion euros in bailout money, Generalitat sources said on Wednesday. The money requested from the regional liquidity fund (Fla) for 2013 almost doubles the amount sought in 2012, 5,37 billion. The regional administration said it would use the money to pay debts and meet deficit reduction targets. The regional fund was created by the central government with 23 billion euros available this year for debt-stricken regions.
The region governed by Artur Mas (CiU) has not ruled out a further application for aid if the finance minister will not accept a request to cut down its deficit target for 2013 from the 0.7% of GDP set by the fiscal and financial policy council to the 1.5% indicated by the Generalitat.
Out of the 9 billion requested, 7,684 would go to cover expiring debts with foreign banks. In order to reach the 0.7% target set for 2013, Catalonia's government would need to cut by 4 billion the regional deficit which was reduced in 2012 by 3,484 billion until 2.3% of the region's GDP, compared to the 1.5% GDP level established by the central government. This target will be harder to reach after the Constitutional Court recently ruled against a one euro tax on medical prescriptions, judicial taxes and a tax on bank deposits introduced by the autonomous community.
The region governed by Artur Mas (CiU) has not ruled out a further application for aid if the finance minister will not accept a request to cut down its deficit target for 2013 from the 0.7% of GDP set by the fiscal and financial policy council to the 1.5% indicated by the Generalitat.
Out of the 9 billion requested, 7,684 would go to cover expiring debts with foreign banks. In order to reach the 0.7% target set for 2013, Catalonia's government would need to cut by 4 billion the regional deficit which was reduced in 2012 by 3,484 billion until 2.3% of the region's GDP, compared to the 1.5% GDP level established by the central government. This target will be harder to reach after the Constitutional Court recently ruled against a one euro tax on medical prescriptions, judicial taxes and a tax on bank deposits introduced by the autonomous community.
http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2013/01/30/Crisis-Spain-Catalonia-asks-new-9-bln-bailout_8161644.html
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