More than 25,000 doctors and more than 50,000 nurses from Romania are working in other EU countries.
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The exact figures cited ('over 25,000 doctors', 'over 50,000 nurses') do not appear in any source located; sources report different values and periods.
The only source that closely matches the nurse figure (Deutsche Welle, 'nearly 50,000 nurses') is from 2018 — more than eight years before the session date — and is a single secondary source.
A 2025 academic study (PMC/Zapata et al.) reports only 23,109 Romanian nurses registered in WHO/Europe countries in 2021, conflicting with the ~50,000 figure and suggesting the nurse number may be overstated.
For doctors, the sources found (DW 2018: ~14,000; OECD 2025-based estimate: ~28% of Romanian-trained doctors, ≈18,000) are all below the claimed 'over 25,000'; the claim is not directly corroborated for the doctor category.
The claim specifies 'in the EU', but the available figures often refer to the broader WHO European Region or to 'abroad' generally, not the EU specifically.
Continued emigration after the 2018 baseline could in principle raise cumulative figures by 2026, but no source confirms the specific thresholds claimed.