Almost three quarters of the hospitals are facing problems in staffing their vacancies with medical specialists (radiologists, gynecologists
)
Some numbers:
- 35 994 physicians will be missing in the next 5 years and 71 625 in the next 10 years.
- 63,4 % are female physicians at the moment, they only work 72% of the time of male physicians.
- 20 000 senior physicians and chief physicians will leave for retirement until 2020.
Doctors and medical staff are welcomed in Germany.