Belarus’s Ministry of Health says wages and housing are not the main problems for young doctors. What else?

Olga Kolyupanova, head of the Ministry of Health’s main personnel department, said that in 2023, graduates of Belarusian medical universities were asked what motivated them to stay in their workplace after completing their mandatory assignments. According to the official, they did not disclose their salary or housing.

“We always thought it was wages and housing, but it turns out that this is not the priority… The priority is their career development level. They want to grow in their careers, be recognized in the workplace, be respected by the public, and be respected in the team.” The representative of the Ministry of Health is full of confidence. Teleport National agency belt.

However, as early as 2023, Alexander Lukashenko raised the issue of allocating young specialists who have completed their studies at the country’s medical universities to target regions at a conference on current health issues. He asked regional and regional governments to create “normal conditions” and stop “freedom” as far as the graduates themselves are concerned.

“How can you retain specialists in the field if normal conditions for patients cannot be created there? The same goes for doctors. Hence the staffing problem: we seem to have trained enough doctors and nurses, but even the targeted workers are not staying in these regions,” he said at the time.

“Now is not the time.”

However, in June 2023, Lukashenko expressed doubts about the feasibility and necessity of selling rental housing to doctors, which is allowed by another law on behalf of law enforcement agencies.

Lukashenko noted that the “vast majority of Belarusian doctors are doing a good job” and “deserve attention” and said consideration of granting them the right to buy rental housing should be postponed.

“We will see how the health care sector comes to its senses and organizes the decisions that I have already determined,” he said last year, clarifying that “so the timing is not quite right yet.”

“Why did you get married?”

At the same time, on the Internet in 2024, the issue of a distributed doctor sparked discussion among Belarusians.

A graduate of the Gomel Medical College posted the story of her internship on TikTok. The main “problem” turned out to be that she was … married. She wrote that she was assigned hundreds of kilometers away from her husband’s place of work. And so on until 2030. She told how this decision was explained to her. I found both support and criticism in the comments. And real advice.

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