The Minister of Health sends us a very important new announcement from the last hour in which he talks about the decisions that were taken for the millions of Romanians throughout the country at the beginning of the pandemic, but also about those who took them, with some of them not being agree then or now.
The Minister of Health talks about the fact that the important decisions taken by the authorities would have been based on a technical-scientific committee whose component included many specialists, but most of them would not have been doctors, according to what Alexandru Rafila said.
"All the time we refer to a situation that we didn't know at first, we didn't know much about the disease, how it develops, how it is prevented, we all walk around hospitals dressed in cosmonaut costumes, now the world is much more relaxed, the disease became much easier, and so on.
It was a decision, and I give an example, with which I did not agree, although I was a member of a so-called technical-scientific support committee for those who were making decisions at that time, and I - I vehemently opposed. It was the decision to close schools in March 2020, when for a very small number of cases registered in Romania, 100 or 200 cases, the decision was taken to close schools for a long period of time.
Life has demonstrated, and not only in Romania, that it was a wrong decision that affected, and probably will continue to affect, the development of children, who were frustrated not only by access to education, but were frustrated access to their normal life, to interaction with colleagues, to interaction with teachers.
I agree that schools can be closed sequentially at a time of exponential growth to stop growth, but what Romania went through, and I would not want to make comparisons with other countries, where other types of measures are taken, to you make decisions that deeply affect the life and development of these children, there must be a balance.
In this technical-scientific committee that made the decisions, and which I think still exists today, but which has not met for a long time, I think, most of those who made decisions were not doctors. We did not organize this committee, most of the clergy there were not doctors."
