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The differences in the working conditions and salaries of doctors and nurses working in Saudi Arabia are huge, compared to those in our country. Your report GRTimes for the life of a Greek nurse, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, confirms Matina Pagoni, who confesses to GRTimes that she had accepted a proposal with 14,000 euros per month! “Our health workers are leaving with justification”, underlines the president of POEDIN.
The working conditions of doctors and nurses abroad are incomparable, compared to those in our country. A Greek nurse working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for luxury accommodation and high salaries, confirmed to GRTimes, confirms EINAP president Matina Pagoni.
“They offered me a job in Saudi Arabia two years ago. The offer came with a two-year contract. My salary would be 14,000 euros per month, while they offered to cover my stay. I decided not to go, since the conditions in the country did not they are bearable. I couldn’t live two years in 45 degrees Celsius, obeying such strict rules, away from my family. “What do you do with money if you can’t go out and enjoy life?” he told GRTimes.
However, he admits that Greece must give competitive incentives to its doctors and nurses, not to leave the country.
“It is unacceptable for us to let our doctors and nurses go. They are amazing minds. We need to offer them incentives. Let’s say we could employ them for two or five years on islands, with better wages, including housing and food, and then move them to urban centers in optimal conditions. conditions. “So the islands would be equipped with a sufficient number of doctors and nurses, and they would have a reason to stay.”
President of POEDIN: In Greece nurses receive 700 euros and in Sweden 2,500
The president of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, tries to make a comparison of the labor conditions and the income of our country in relation to the outside, speaking with GRTimes. According to him, the salary of the average nurse in our country amounts to 700 euros for 8 hours of work, while the average doctor to 1,200 euros, which together with the duty guard amounts to 1,700 euros per month. In addition, as he explains, a nurse and a doctor in Greece have to deal with unemployment, but also with insecurity, since most today are contractors with contracts of five or six months, knowing that with the expiration of the contract can be unemployed.
In Sweden, a nurse receives 2,500 euros for 7 hours of work, while her rent is 800 euros and includes all expenses. Here insecurity prevails. We have been hiring permanent staff for at least five years. We have 40 thousand vacancies and two nurses attend to 40 patients. Abroad, they have ten nurses for 40 patients. We know that working conditions are better. Furthermore, our colleagues abroad receive a heavy and unhealthy allowance. Our country is the only one that does not provide it. So they are rightly leaving, “concludes Mr. Giannakos.
He concludes by saying that it is never too late to correct pathogens. Considers it necessary to hire staff to alleviate the exhaustion of medical and nursing staff, especially in times of pandemic, while pointing out the need to seek competitive incentives to avoid brain drain.
Source: GR TIMES
