It will be exempt from compliance with the nationality requirement for specialties considered “shortage or difficult to cover”, in contracts that will also be temporary.
The Ministry of Health of the Basque Government has given the green light for the hiring staff from outside the EU to temporarily fill vacancies 52 medical specialties and 3 nursing specialties with a shortage of professionals.
Osakidetza published a resolution this Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country (BOPV) agreeing to exempt “for reasons of public interest” from the nationality requirement in the temporary selection processes necessary to fill positions in 55 specialties. that are being considered “defective or difficult to cover” in cases where the non-existence of available professionals with the nationality is confirmed.
This legal requirement was reflected in an additional provision of the Public Health Law approved by the Basque Parliament. last November 30 allowing Osakidetza to employ these non-EU people and exempt them from compliance with the nationality requirement in certain specialties where there is a shortage of professionals, They will not be permanent, but temporary.
The resolution published today emphasizes that, prior to any offer of appointment to a person from outside the EU who has applied for inclusion on the temporary recruitment lists, lack of available staff that those lists meet the nationality requirement.
Shortage in 55 specialties
The specialties that Osakidetza identifies as having a shortage of teachers and nursing staff are as follows:
Allergology, Pathological Anatomy, Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Digestive System, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, General Surgery and Digestive System, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Palliative care , general medicine, dermatology, surgical medicine and venereology.
Also those of Emergencies, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Pharmacology, Hematology and Hemotherapy, Home Hospitalization, Occupational Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Intensive Medicine, Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Nephrology, Pulmonary Diseases, Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurology and Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The relationship also includes the specialties of Ophthalmology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatrics, Hospital Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, Radiodiagnosis, Rheumatology, Hospital Emergencies, Health Management Units, Urology, Clinical Analysis, Immunology and Microbiology and Parasitology.
As for the specialties missing from the nursing workforce, they include occupational health, mental health and midwives.
Source: EITB
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