The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, stated on Tuesday that many of the national plans and strategies are behind schedule, because they cannot be implemented. The National Diabetes Plan, for example, the minister believes that “it was a fairy tale, a novel” that has nothing to do with the reality of the Romanian medical system.
“Many plans are delayed and many of them, from my point of view, are real doctoral theses that cannot be implemented. Because they were written by all kinds of specialists in the field, academics who wanted to show that they know how to write a lot, but there are many objective things, actions that cannot be implemented and we have these examples from the past”, declared, on Tuesday, the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, after participating in the launch of the campaign of building the first Integrated University Clinic for Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases for Children in Romania, according to News.ro.
He specified that all the plans he coordinated “are short to the point, with clear measurable indicators and that can be implemented”.
“The National Diabetes Plan was not implemented because it was a fairy tale, a novel, a plan that far exceeds the capacity of the health system and of Romania to be implemented and not because we are incompetent, but because what is written in that plan is not related to the reality of the health system”, Rogobete also declared.
He reiterated the idea that he wants insulin-dependent patients to stop being taken to all kinds of offices: “I want us to remove this unnecessary walk of patients between medical offices to purchase their sensors and insulin pumps. I want us to open open chain pharmacies in the circuit, however the state pays them, however they are compensated and free. I don’t see the point why a patient who we know has diabetes to stay for hours and let’s walk him between the offices in the outpatient clinic just to receive those medical devices, I repeat, which are free anyway”.
In relation to the National Plan, Rogobete added: “We will discuss and I assure you that it will be flexible to the point and that it will be able to be implemented. In the shortest possible time.”
