The Minister of Health confirms a series of last-minute measures that were adopted as an emergency for millions of Romanians throughout the country, and this is because a new ordinance was adopted to unlock medical research programs, and not only that, in Romania.
The Minister of Health explains that the blockage was of a legislative nature due to the state of alert, and now it has returned to normal, separately talking about new projects for the creation of hospitals with the money that is available for Romania through the PNRR in the following years.
"Only now was the National Health Insurance House able to unblock these programs. You know that yesterday an emergency ordinance of the Government was adopted which makes it possible to carry out medical activity under the conditions in which the state of alert has been raised, and there are a whole series of ailments that are mentioned.
Inquiries can be made for them, but only now do we have the legal basis, beyond the contract value, depending on the needs. So we had a legislative block, it was overcome, it was a complicated ordinance. Returning to normality is a process that must be achieved, it cannot be done overnight.
Even the way of financing the activity in hospitals will continue in a similar way for the hospitals that treated COVID patients, and that had a lower addressability, until September 30, following that the return to normal in terms of financing , to be done later. I believe that in the next period all these things will be resolved, especially since we also have a legal basis for payments.
We are trying through 2 mechanisms (ed. creation of new hospitals and departments in hospitals), we do not want to change the list of hospitals in the PNRR, we want to expand it. We received a list of 49 hospitals that were chosen based on non-transparent criteria. After I came to the ministry, about 70 proposals came from the country, which meant completed feasibility studies.
We are trying, and this must be a decision of Romania, and we brought it to the attention of the prime minister, and we must also go to the political area, and together we try to come up with rational arguments in order not to create non-transparent mechanisms from the beginning, but we want them to be transparent."
