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CommunicationPublished on 25 May 2021

Moldova's health system buckling due to emigration

For years, Moldova has suffered from a rapidly shrinking population and the paradoxical situation that many young people are emigrating to the West because of political instability, a lack of employment opportunities and low wages, while at the same time the country faces a shortage of skilled labour. The health sector is in a particularly precarious predicament.

Coming and going: many locals buy and sell products, especially clothes, at the flea market behind the railway station in the capital Chișinău.

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