Bolojan: Although health budgets have increased year by year and have been large salary increases in previous years, it was not sufficiently reflected in improving the quality of medical services / health measures for which the Government has assumed responsibility
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Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan told the Government's liability in Parliament on Monday night, that the new health measures will bring more order and fairness in the meduat system, more care for patients and will make the services more accessible, writes news.ro.
291 amendments were filed on the draft laws for which the Government has been responsible. Three of the laws in package 2 of measures were approved in the original form, all the amendments being rejected by the Government. These are the law on the modification of the special pension system of magistrates, the law on the field of health and the law on corporate governance.
“A correct state, with respect for Romanians, cannot exist in the absence of an accessible, efficient health system, with decent medical services for each patient. Although health budgets have increased year by year, although there have been big wage increases in the past years and investments have been made in the system, this did not reflect enough to improve the quality of the medical services. the prime minister in Parliament.
What are the health measures adopted by the government
He explained that the project for which he engages his responsibility before the Parliament brings more fairness in the system and reduces waste.
“First of all, the reform we propose today starts from the principle of reorienting patients from the hospitalization area to family medicine and specialized medicine. From the elimination of hospitalizations that are not necessary and the treatment of patients to the family or specialist, can be saved over 3 billion lei that will be redirected for medical services,” Bolojan said.
The measures in the field of health are:
- Fines for doctors who do not consult in the hospital polyclinic: doctors working in hospitals will be obliged to grant, during the work schedule, consultations in the integrated ambulatory, where patients can be consulted in the polyclinic regime, for at least one hour/day per month, related to a 35 -hour program;
- Hospitals that allocate more money for salaries than for treating patients will have to carry out more services, so as to cover that budget;
- Family doctors will be financially stimulated to provide more medical services;
- Settled medical services offered by mobile caravans that will go to isolated areas: hospitals will be able to organize mobile medical caravans for isolated communities, and the services will be settled by the Health Insurance House;
- Strategic hospitals and medical consortia: A series of hospitals in Romania will be declared “strategic importance” hospitals. The criteria of classification in this category The list of hospitals of strategic importance will be approved by government decision;
- The clawback fee for drug producers increases: the clawback tax is a payment obligation that returns quarterly to the owners of the marketing authorizations of medicines, producers or distributors of drugs;
- Private residents will be paid by the private hospital: they will no longer be paid by the Ministry of Health, as is the case today.
“I ask you to support these measures, which will help to stop the waste and the better use of public money in the health system, coming to patients,” concluded Bolojan.
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan came before the Parliament's reunite plenary to engage the Government's responsibility on five of the six projects in the fiscal package 2, in a context marked by the coalition voltages. It is for the first time that such a procedure is used for so many projects on the same day, and under these conditions there must be successive sessions of the plenary.
