The Minister of Health sent today a last-minute warning that is extremely important for many Romanians throughout the country, and this is because he is officially speaking about the fact that in Romania the duration of treatment for diseases is much longer than in other European countries , which puts pressure on the medical system.
The Minister of Health also tells us that the overcrowding of emergency reception units in hospitals is not a sustainable solution either, and that a network of outpatient treatment locations for Romanians who need medical help must be created, without them actually going to hospitals.
"The development of preventive medical services, i.e. a medicine for healthy people, the periodic evaluation that allows the early detection of diseases, the extension of healthy life span, that interests us. This is actually the best investment because Romania, compared to other countries, has a very large discrepancy regarding the duration of the disease.
We can have, let's say, an average life expectancy close to that of other countries, but we have to treat people for more years than the medical systems in other countries have to treat them. It is quite difficult, notice what opposition there is, at the moment, in the development of services to prevent the overcrowding of urgent reception services.
Transporting people to hospitals is preferred, and this is not at all sustainable because it will lead to an increase in health expenses at a rate greater than the gross domestic product, and at some point it is obvious that things get stuck. It is a very big concern, including in the USA, which has an incredible percentage of GDP allocated to health, almost 18%.
Consider that the European average is around 9% - 10%, in Romania it is 5.7%, but the USA has 18%. Even so, these systems that spend a lot of money realize that they can no longer continue like this. It is good to be able to have a strategy for educating the population, as well as the medical staff, which can go in line with an investment policy in the health system.
On the one hand, it must rehabilitate, build new hospitals, but which must focus on the development of sufficiently extensive medical services at ambulatory level to allow the evaluation, diagnosis and ambulatory treatment of the vast majority of patients in Romania. Before the pandemic, we had about 4 million hospitalizations per year, which is a lot."
