Gov’t to hire doctors in Portugal

[pearl river]

Gov’t to hire doctors in Portugal
05/05/2011 09:40:00 Font size:
Macau’s second public hospital, to be built on Cotai, will be completed before 2015. The Health Bureau deputy director departs this month to Portugal to hire new physicians and health professionals
The Macau Government is going to recruit new doctors in Portugal this month, the Portuguese-language Radio Macau reported yesterday.
According to the report, there are 22 vacancies for physicians and four for other health professionals. Most of them, Radio Macau added, will be hired to work at the new hospital that is going to be built on Cotai.
Chan Wai Sin, deputy director of the Health Bureau (SS) and also director of the Conde de São Januário Hospital, will head to Portugal on May 17, where he will interview candidates who are willing to work in Macau. According to Radio Macau, physicians will be paid between MOP 68,000 and MOP 83,000.
Currently, the SAR Government is seeking to hire doctors in different areas, such as cardiology, paediatrics, psychiatry and forensic medicine.
According to the director of the Health Bureau Lei Chin Ion, Macau’s second public hospital will be completed before 2015. Lei said the construction work might start in 2012.
The new hospital will be built on the eastern part of Estrada do Istmo (Cotai) between the Seac Pai Van Reservoir and the Macau Dome. Occupying a total of 50,000 square metres of land, facilities will include a 100-sickbed emergency department, a crisis centre, a centre for positron emission tomography (PET) and radiation treatment, a drug control department and ancillary facilities will firstly be built.
On Tuesday, Lei said the new hospital would require at least 200 doctors for its first phase. The number could reach 600 after the completion of all three phases of the new health care facility.
However, he added, the actual number of physicians will only be known once the number of beds is defined, as well as the specialities that will be offered at the new hospital.
The move is more than welcomed by several local professionals, who have warned several times that Macau needs more physicians to cope with the city development.
In an interview with MDTimes last December, Mário Évora, director of the cardiology services at the public hospital, said the MSAR needed to “speed up” a little more the human resources planning “to make sure we have enough manpower when the new hospital opens doors”.
However, he also pointed out, it would be very important to further develop vocational education and training of physicians.
“It is easy to buy equipment, but the training of human resources is quite difficult, above all if we do not want to depend on imported labour. There should be a greater investment in the training of local manpower,” he said.

[DanielFigFoz]

This'll give Portugal boost to self-esteem

[mrfusion]

can't they recruit medical professional from China? at least they speak Chinese.

[NuncaPior]

Originally Posted by mrfusion

can't they recruit medical professional from China? at least they speak Chinese.

Because Macau is trying to overcome the crap reputation of their own medical care. And it is not going to be in Mainland China they will find it. Indeed...

[johnny_machine]

Originally Posted by mrfusion

can't they recruit medical professional from China? at least they speak Chinese.

They can recruit from both countries to make a bilingual staff, to honour Macau's official language status. Coexistence has worked for centuries in Macau and it produced an unique culture, language and cuisine.

[yunowu]

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[Klinsmann_19]