“Ten years ago, the state reduced taxation for IT specialists, in order to keep them in the country. Romania has a chronic lack of doctors and a similar measure would be needed to retain its professionals,” company deputy general manager Sergiu Negut said Thursday, in the conference “Analyzing the healthcare reform,” hosted by Eureko and MEDIAFAX.
Last year, the Software and Services Industry Employers’ Association announced that the income tax exemption, introduced in 2001 for programmers, was one of the measures responsible for economic growth, as the sector’s share of the gross domestic product increased to 10% from 3%.
Negut also said that, in Romania, there are 2.2 doctors per thousand people, while this average is double in Western European states.
He added that more than 5,000 doctors have left the country so far and this process will not stop.