Over the course of five years, 13 young doctors came to work in Pervomaisk, but not all of them stayed

Over the course of five years, 13 young doctors came to work in Pervomaisk. Photo for illustration from the archive of NikVesti

Over the five years of the Medical Personnel programme, 13 young doctors have come to work in Pervomaisk after completing their training.

This was announced during a meeting of the commission on health, education, science, culture, youth, sports and tourism, social protection, language, national minority rights, gender equality, motherhood and childhood, according to NikVesti

The commission noted that not all of the 13 doctors remained to work in the community. However, the Medical Personnel programme will continue to operate.

According to the report, from 2021 to 2025, 201,400 hryvnias were spent on training students on a contract basis at higher medical educational institutions. In total, 11 students were funded during the training period (2021 — 4, 2022 — 3, 2023 — 2, 2025 — 2).

However, during the programme's implementation, no housing reserve was created for young specialists, and their rental costs were not reimbursed.

It should be noted that local healthcare institutions in Pervomaisk are short of 34 doctors of various specialities. To solve this problem, the city council is preparing to adopt a targeted programme called Medical Personnel for 2026–2030.

The community is in dire need of doctors in the following specialties:

• 10 general practitioners — family medicine
• 2 physical and rehabilitation medicine doctors
• 2 anaesthesiologists
• 2 cardiologists
• 2 neurologists
• 2 surgeons
• 2 emergency medicine doctors
• 2 therapists
• 1 ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, narcologist, oncologist, traumatologist, psychiatrist, nephrologist, radiologist, ultrasound doctor, laboratory doctor.