Poll: One in two Czech doctors would consider working abroad

Nearly one in two Czech doctors would consider working abroad, suggests a study conducted by the journal Health Care in the Czech Republic. Forty-five percent of practitioners and some 60 percent of medical students questioned said that, due to the low wages that doctors receive in the Czech Republic, they would consider working abroad for more money. The average gross monthly salary for a doctor in this country is 43,000 crowns (nearly 2,300 USD) - in Great Britain or Ireland, according to the journal, doctors earn three times that amount. A great number of the Czech doctors polled said that they were also unhappy with the levels of bureaucracy in the Czech healthcare service.