Euskadi attracts doctors from outside

A total of 845 candidates have registered in the OPE (Public employment Offer) of difficult primary care coverage which ended last Wednesday, April 30.

Thus, the Health Minister of the Basque Government, Alberto Martínezin an interview on the public television channel ETB2.

By categories, for the 143 places of difficult coverage planned, 653 people have been registered in family medicine77 in Pediatrics90 in Psychiatry and 25 people in Extrahospital child psychiatry in primary care.

The OPE plans to cover a total of 143 places, offered in the field of primary care and distributed as follows: 108 places of family medicine; 18 Pediatrics places; 12 places of psychiatry; and 5 places of child psychiatry.

Counselor Martínez stressed that, with the OPE of difficult coverage in primary care, Basque Country It is consolidated as the focus of attraction of professionals from the health field of other autonomous communities, since more than 10 percent of the people registered, about a hundred, come from outside our community. “We think they can help solve part of the problem,” he added.

“The Ministry of Health does not give options”

In this sense, the head of the Health Department of the Basque Government has pointed out that various measures are being adopted, including the OPE of difficult coverage, to address the problem of Lack of professionals in primary care. “Competition is exclusive to Ministry of Healthbut it does not give options and they tell us that we have to be attractive. We do everything that the protection of the law allows us to solve the problems, we cannot wait for others to solve the problems because we see that they take and will not arrive, ”he said.

After the completion of the registration phase, the call for employment continues now with the publication of the definitive listings of the admitted people to the process. In parallel, the accreditation of the merits presented by applicants and this procedure is expected to be carried out during the month of May. Professionals are planned to join their new destinations before the start of the summer period.

The new OPE of difficult coverage in primary care aims to stabilize jobs in Health centers y Continuity PointsPACS, which, due to different circumstances, are less attractive to professionals, and that consequently are vacancies in ordinary employment offers. They are considered places of difficult coverage, mainly, those corresponding to professionals with Working Days of Nelf Centers in Urban Nuclei Health CentersContinuous attention points as well as jobs in offices of the furthest rural areas.

The hiring of specific positions of difficult coverage is one of the great priorities of the Department of Health and Osakidetza for this legislature. Although the Health Minister has nuanced that the OPE of difficult coverage is one of the public job offers that are underway at this time. “We are in a consolidation process that will mean in all Osakidetza stabilization of up to 7,000 places”Martínez said.