Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
At the beginning of June 2005, the Ministry of Health instructed the Public Healthcare Department of Dolj (Southern region) to lay-off 130 employees in the county hospitals and clinics. The process will affect medical assistants, currently totalling 6,534 people. The Decision came only a few weeks after a communiqué specifying that no more redundancies would be operated in the healthcare system.
Trade unions in the county expressed their dissatisfaction and disapproval of this measure. Local trade union leaders declared that medical staff is insufficient as it is and that additional redundancies would lead to a situation where a single medical assistant would have 75 beds in his/her care, which is a next to impossible feat. On 19 May 2005, trade unions in the sector held a protest meeting which included 166 protesters from Dolj. ‘We participated not just for ourselves, but also for the sick people who are forced to buy drugs out of their own pocket. At the moment, no hospital in Dolj has transfusion apparatus and medical assistants have no means of giving injections'.
Eurofound (2005), Romanian Public Healthcare, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 61843, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61843.
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