Within the Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Cluj-Napoca, the first center for pain therapy in Romania was opened, where patients benefit from settled treatment. For now, however, they can only be hospitalized for one day, because the law that allows admission will only enter into July. Even so, “Patients earn a lot in functionality and are significantly reduced the consumption of anti -inflammatory ”, the doctors said.
The pain becomes a disease itself. Archive
A unique project in Romania was launched in Cluj-Napoca. This is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to pain management. The department, which functions, decadently, as a pilot project, offers patients access to a team of specialists from various fields, in one place, thus facilitating integrated diagnosis and treatment. In order to benefit from the consultation, patients only need an appointment and a referral ticket from the family doctor.
The initiative belongs to a team of doctors from the Integrated Ambulatory of the Hospital that has made a work visit in Belgium, where such centers exist and operate. Returning to the country, Romanian doctors have decided to implement a similar model in Cluj. “Pain is, practically, the final stage of manifestation of an entire pathology. Our center has the ambition to teach the patient why he feels the pain, to be aware of how to cope with that pain,” said Dr. Ruxandra Schiotis, primary rheumatologist.
Within the center there are specialists from several fields, such as neurology, orthopedics, neurosurgery or radiology, which through treatments and therapies help patients manage a wide range of chronic pain, migraines, column pain, member or thoracic and abdominal.
The less good news is that the legislative changes that give the patients free or cheaper access to such medical services has not yet entered vigor. Then, after it happens, the rules of application must be expected, the representatives of the National Health Insurance House sent.
Even so, doctors have found, however, a way to help patients. “At the moment, the pain is considered a symptom in certain diseases and the law gives us the opportunity to create day and treatment protocols based on certain conditions, which, from our point of view, include painful pathology.”explained Dr. Sebastian Armenian, chief doctor of the ambulatory.
What is pain therapy
Pain therapy is a medical branch that brings together different specialties, from neurology, rheumatology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, to radiology and medical recovery.
“When we talk about pain therapy, we refer to chronic pain, and its investigation is, most of the times, extremely careful. It involves, on the one hand, multidisciplinary medical teams, doctors of different specializations, looking for the best therapeutic solutions. Insurances. He explained, for “Adevărul”, Radu Gănescu, the president of the Association of Patients with Chronic Diseases.
Nicoleta Pauliuc, senator. Archive
The Law of Pain Therapy, approved last year
Last year, a draft law provides for cheaper or even free medical services was adopted for patients suffering from acute or chronic pain. The new law establishes the right of insured persons to medical services for pain therapy, respectively the set of medical services for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients of all ages, children or adults, with acute or chronic pain.
“The project is important because it represents a fundamental change in the approach of medicine in Romania: it is no longer emphasized only on the effective treatment part for healing or improving the patient’s condition, but also on eliminating or even drastically reducing suffering. If we remove pain through medication and specific medical procedures, we improve the lives of the sick and we can help them to overcome more difficult times in their lives. The medical technique and our knowledge have evolved sufficiently so that, almost every case we can do concrete things in the hospital system, to reduce the suffering of those who face almost any kind of condition. “states Nicoleta Pauliuc last year, one of the initiators of the project.
“insured They have the right to medical services for the cure of the disease, to prevent its complications, to recover by disease and for pain therapy. In the case of insured persons who benefit from the medical services for pain therapy, pain management is carried out within the evidence -based medicine, integrated and interdisciplinary, based on the medical practice guides, the national medical practice protocols, the operational protocols of medical practice or the therapeutic protocols ””provides for the project.
Cezar Irimia, president of the Association of Oncological Patients. Archive
How is pain therapy abroad
Abroad, pain therapy is a concept implemented for decades. “Abroad there are recovery programs in oncology, Parkinson, in cardiovascular disease, etc. it is not enough to put the patient only a stent, and then send him home. He needs to be introduced in a recovery program,” He told “Adevărul” and Cezar Irimia, the president of the Association of Oncological Patients.
In Romania, in oncology, the number of deaths is more than 48% higher than the European average. Also, over 20,000 deaths that could have been avoided annually. “Only we know how those people die. I do not die in dignity and dignity. Die in torment ”Irimia said.
In private clinics, a consultation with doctors who have skills in pain therapy costs over 300 lei, and a treatment session can exceed 1,000 lei.
