The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that it has decided, following direct consultations with patient associations and with representatives responsible from justice, to withdraw from the ordinance draft the provision that limit the possibility of patients to call on the procedure of presidential order for access to drugs.
Alexandru Rogobete, Minister of Photo Health: Gov.ro
“Patients should not suffer from legislative imperfections or incomplete solutions. Our obligation, as a state and as a ministry, is to find correct, fast and ethical mechanisms through which people have access to the necessary treatments, especially where there is no therapeutic alternative. The solution is not to limit the rights of patients, but to come with more and more, but to come with more balance between the responsibility of the authorities, the obligations of the pharmaceutical companies and, especially, the right of each patient “, The Ministry of Health states, in a post on its Facebook page.
At the same time, to guarantee real and efficient access, it will be introduced “A stricter monitoring mechanism: the prescribing doctor will have the obligation to follow the evolution of the patient, to evaluate the therapeutic benefit and to refer the results quarterly “.
“In the event of obtaining an additional therapeutic benefit, after the first annual evaluation, a cost sharing agreement between CNAS and the owner of the drug authorization of the drug will be applied, so that the patients are supported, and the system remains sustainable. Until the experts from the Ministry of Health, the National Agency and the National Agency full administrative, The respective provision is withdrawn of the current order of ordinance ”emphasizes the Ministry of Health.
