The Minister of Health explains one of the most important measures that is currently being taken in our country, the modernization of family medicine offices with PNRR funds, something that should bring medical services to European standards for millions of Romanians throughout the country.
The Minister of Health talks below about a first round of investments of 180 million euros that will be facilitated with the money from PNRR, and explains what kind of family medicine offices will be able to take advantage of everything, if the doctors want to ask for the money on which the authorities are making available to them now.
"3.000 offices, or associations of primary care offices, will be renovated, modernized, and equipped with equipment. The total budget of this project is around 180 million euros. There are, according to the provisions of the PNRR, two lists, a pre-selected list, 135 million euros, and 45 million euros for another 750 family medicine practices that register on a platform they have at their disposal.
They will be chosen from a total, possibly larger, based on meeting the minimum eligibility criteria. Each cabinet can receive up to 60.000 euros, with two components, one for equipment, and one for rehabilitation - renovation. The first value of 45.000 euros, the second, for renovation, of a maximum of 15.000 euros, payable directly to those who apply for renovation.
Eligible equipment are IT, or computer programs, furniture, medical instruments, disinfection systems, rapid biochemistry - hematology analyzers, digital electrocardiograph, portable ultrasound, digital spirometer, holter for blood pressure monitoring, monitor for vital functions, oxygen concentrator, and automatic defibrillator.
Obviously, equipping family medicine offices with these equipments is essential for transforming them, and doctors, into providers of more complex medical services that people need, in an ambulatory system. We will double this effort through the development policy of specialized outpatient clinics.
Funding will be granted with priority to medical offices in disadvantaged rural areas and areas in small towns. Regarding the development of the preselected list, the data taken from CNAS, respectively the list of family doctors, were used. It was taken into account the dispersion of the population in the area where the medical activity is carried out, the road distance from the medical unit that has the UPU, and a certain score related to the increase in the contract for these family medicine offices."
