The Ministry of Health announces a series of major changes in the financing of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (ATI) departments in public hospitals, through the national ATI Priority Actions (AP-ATI) program. The project was put into decisional transparency.
The measures were presented on Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, in a public post.
“We are putting in decision-making transparency an important amendment and addition to the minister’s order that regulates the financing of ATI sections in Romania, through the national ATI Priority Actions (AP-ATI) program. Through this program, the Ministry of Health directly finances the ATI departments in public hospitals in Romania, where the most critical patients are treated and where, most of the time, the difference between life and death is made”, the minister wrote on Facebook.
What changes
According to the minister, the changes are aimed both at expanding the list of eligible materials and medicines, and at including new activities that can be financed.
“The list of sanitary materials, consumables and drugs eligible to be purchased through AP-ATI has been updated and expanded, taking into account the evolution of technology and the pharmaceutical industry”explained Rogobete.
The minister specifies that, following these changes, ATI sections will be able to buy “state-of-the-art consumables and drugs, which will increase the quality and safety of medical care for critically ill patients.”
Another important innovation is the inclusion of interventions from the operating room in the list of funded activities.
“New activities eligible for financing were introduced in AP-ATI, such as interventions in the operating room – anesthesia“, the minister specified. If until now funding was limited to services in ATI departments, the amendment allows purchases for the operating block as well.
Alexandru Rogobete states that these changes are necessary for “to support the development of the response capacity of the intensive care units and the operating room, properly financing the medical services offered in the most critical moments”.
Five new hospitals enter the program
The Ministry also expands the list of medical units that will receive funding through AP-ATI.
“We introduced 5 more hospitals that will benefit from financial resources from this program, among them: St. Ioan Galați Children’s Emergency Clinical Hospital, Brașov Pneumophthiziology and Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital, Târgoviște Emergency Clinical Hospital, Odorheiul Secuiesc Municipal Hospital and Turda Municipal Hospital“, explained the minister.
