War and Post-War Zones: A Deficit of Staff Members in the Private Practices

Abstract

The war on European continent continues… 57 days of Russian invasion with tanks, fighters, combat helicopters, warships, missiles attacks but also a heroic defense of Ukrainian army and nation completely changed the work of many private practices in Ukraine. Deficit of staff members in a war and post-war regions has been developed due to the two main reasons (1) temporary/permanent change of residence of clinic staff from the eastern, southern and northern regions of Ukraine to the central and western regions and (2) departure/evacuation abroad for temporary/permanent residence. More than 5 million people have left Ukraine for almost two months of Russian full-scale invasion. The majority (90 percent) of those people are women and children; among them a significant number of dentists, nurses, and clinic administrators can be noted. Female orthodontists (i.e., doctor-stomatologist-orthodontists), pediatric dentists (i.e., pediatric doctor-stomatologists), oral surgeons (i.e., doctor-stomatologist-surgeons), interns, students of dental faculties are those health workers who have been evacuated from Kyiv during the last two months according to our data. Also, among the evacuated persons of Kyiv`s clinics are nursemaids, nurses, and administrators. We can state with assurance that gender will be used as a basic guideline for the present and future hiring for the clinic in the war zones (e.g., Kyiv city and region, Chernihiv region, Sumy region, Zhytomyr region, etc.)5. This is evidenced by the fact that male employees of the military age (18-60-year-old men) are the subject to a possible mobilization in the army and do not have the opportunity to leave the country during the acting martial law.