Some 10,000 doctors left Italy for
abroad between 2005 and 2015, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci
said Wednesday, saying it was time to stop the medical brain
drain.
"In ten years from 2005 to 2015 more than 10,000 doctors left
Italy to work abroad, an exodus of human capital that we can no
longer afford," he said at the inauguration of the Academic Year
of the Catholic University of Rome.
"With this in mind, it seems urgent to put young people at the
centre of development policies by offering them the chance to
realise their aspirations, dispelling the idea that ours is not
a nation for young people."
Schillaci said the government aimed to expand places at medical
schools.
"Only two or three years ago, between 8,000 and 10,000 students
per year were admitted to the Faculty of Medicine. "Yet ten
years ago, the Conference of Deans of the Faculty of Medicine
was already insistently calling for the number of students
admitted to it to be increased to 12,000."
For this reason, the minister said, "the numbers made public
with the decree of 10 February regarding access to the Faculty
of Medicine are to be considered provisional and I believe they
will be expanded".
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