The Ministry of Health is developing a strategy to reduce patient transfers from public to private hospitals, Minister Alexandru Rafila said on Thursday.
Alexandru Rafila participated on Thursday in the inauguration of the National Neurology Forum – Photo Archive
“Let's not forget, for example, that family doctors are private operators and we refer patients to the family doctor even if they are private operators. (…) We are working on a strategy to limit this, I don't know if we will be able to eliminate it. We will try to do things applied and in a way that makes doctors responsible. I think that a declaration should be made on the personal responsibility of the doctors who work in public institutions regarding this aspect, that they do not refer patients. Sanctions that can be applied must also be established. On the other hand, and we will soon introduce this into the performance criteria of managers, it is about how the work schedule is respected in public hospitals because some doctors who work in a public hospital have to carry out activities of the at least six hours, and completing up to seven hours is done through on-call duty. (…) We are working on this”said Rafila, according to Agerpres.
On Thursday, the Minister of Health was present at the inauguration of the National Neurology Forum, focused on “National strategy to combat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases“. The event was organized by the Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neurorehabilitation and the Society of Neurology in Romania, with the support of the Ministry of Health.
The national strategy for Cardio-Cerebral health, approved by summer
During the event, Alexandru Rafila announced that The National Strategy for Combating Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases will be approved by the Government and implemented by the middle of this year.
“The National Strategy for Cerebrovascular Diseases, which, from a technical point of view, from a professional point of view, is completed, still requires some adaptations because these strategies have a certain format that we must respect when we promote them as Government decisions Romania. There is still work to be done on the administrative side and on how this strategy is structured. I am convinced that in a not very long time, by the middle of this year, we will have this strategy approved by the Romanian Government and implemented”, Rafila claimed.
To increase the number of centers for thrombectomies, there is a need to increase the number of qualified specialists.
“What we managed to do with the Romanian Society of Neurology, with the Society of Cardiology and with colleagues from other specialties is to be able to develop this competence, this certificate, which is serious, lasts a year, is long and allows doctors from several specialties, not only interventional radiologists, who are the leaders – and we must respect this – of these procedures that are successfully applied to patients. We need to increase the number. A first estimate is that we will have 25 new specialists. We are talking about some centers that must have at least four or five employees qualified to perform thrombectomies“, explained the minister, according to the cited source.
