Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic ADVERTISEMENTA substancial number of EU nurses is approaching retirement age, with limited younger replacements entering the profession. Nurses often face challenging working conditions, including long hours, high patient-to-staff rations,\u00a0 low salaries and emotional strain. Many nurses report burnout, impacting retention rates and discouraging vocation in young people.\u00a0Competition among EU countries to attract and retain medical professionals further exacerbate the situation. Aware of the problem, the EU is developing a 3-year initiativeto launch new, better training programmes to attract young students to the nursing field.\u00a0Bulgaria is a clear example of the current challenges. In a decade, the country has lost over 10% of its nurses, including many leaving for other EU Member States in search for better salaries and working conditions. Take for instance Elza. She is one of the 144 nurses at the Blagoevgrad State Hospital in southwest Bulgaria.\u00a0 Elza works at the Orthopedics ward.\u00a0Despite improvements last year, the hospital operates below the ratio of at least 2 nurses per doctor, widely considered by health professionals as the minimum standard for good practice. \u00a0\u201cMy dream was always to work as a nurse, although there were many, many other options for my studies. But I just wanted to become a nurse. My mother is also a nurse, my children too. It’s a good job for me\u201d, says Elza. \u201c(But) We receive very little money and for this we are forced to work in two places. I’m given days off, when I can see my family. We don\u00b4t have to stay 24 hours in the ward, but we spend a lot of hours working. I’m getting tired, I’m really getting tired. A lot of work scares young nurses away. So one by one they just disappear\u201dLike many other EU nurses, Elza clearly finds it difficult to speak out about the issue. They fear for their jobs. But she can\u00b4t really hide the high personal price her beloved profession often implies.\u00a0\u201cPerhaps our work is not appreciated in Bulgaria\u201d, she says. \u201cI could give a lot of examples, situations which are not fair. But really we somehow feel devalued, because you work 12 hours, you deprive yourself of holidays, you deprive yourself of weekdays, evenings away from the family, right? It all comes down to the financial side\u201d.\u00a0Bulgaria is short of estimated 17,000 nurses for its health system to work efficiently. So how to solve or at least improve the situation?\u00a0Milka Vassileva is the President of the 32,000 member-strong Bulgarian Association of Healthcare Professionals. She has been working as a clinical nurse for 43 years.\u00a0Nurses\u00b4 work matters, she says, and it should be recognized accordingly, she claims.\u00a0\u201cAccording to our calculations, in order for nurses to remain in Bulgaria, the starting salary would have to be at least three times the minimum salary in the country\u201d, Milka Vassileva says. \u201cWhat can the European Commission do? We\u00b4ve already witnessed many declarations, different financial and whatever documents have been referred to the Member States. Even in the EU\u00b4s semester-long report on Bulgaria, it is explicitly written that investments in health care should be increased, so that nurses have the opportunity to work on what they were really trained. And this only in medical institutions, but also in outpatient care, which is not currently the case.\u201d\u00a0Experts agree that, other than funding, any strategy at EU level should also include improvements in aspects like planning, recruitment, training, working conditions, and professional development.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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