The Minister of Health confirms for millions of Romanians from all over the country a series of decisions of national interest that will also have a very important long-term impact, and this is because we are talking about the public health programs that the ministry runs and in which CNAS can partially imply.
The Minister of Health also talks about an important protocol signed with the Romanian Church for the provision of religious assistance in health facilities throughout Romania, something that comes as a first for our country, but there will certainly be many Romanians who will be eager to benefit from they.
"We work very well with CNAS and things are evolving. If initially things were very clearly settled in relation to prevention, which should be the responsibility of the ministry, and the therapeutic area should be exclusively in the CNAS area, things are changing because, in the end, CNAS, as the financier of access to medical services must contribute.
I think she is also interested in the costs that could be achieved by involving the home in prevention programs, and I will give an extremely simple example, vaccination, an extremely well-known matter, and the access of patients with certain types of ailments, or chronic diseases, or the prevention of some diseases by seasonal vaccination against the flu, may be the subject of CNAS settlements.
This thing is happening everywhere in the European Union, so it is not a matter that is new, and it is good to cooperate in this sense. I saw a rather exciting topic, the contribution of patients. I saw that it was the only patient association invited, but let's not forget that there are many categories of patients with chronic diseases, and they must be the subject of some programs of access to medicines.
Now we are discussing therapy that should be personalized, and combating, and even curing, diseases that were once considered impossible to cure. I think we have to pave the way for a new approach within these national health programs in the priority therapeutic areas.
Today, September 22, 2022, university prof. Dr. Alexandru Rafila met with a delegation of the Romanian Patriarchate, led by His Holiness Father Varlaam Ploieșteanul, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop, Secretary of the Holy Synod, to finalize a protocol aimed at Christian Orthodox religious assistance in health facilities.
The protocol has several objectives, among which we mention: the joint development of care programs for people with chronic conditions or in the terminal stage of the disease; awareness of the importance of seeing a doctor at the first signs of illness; reducing the consumption of products that harm health (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) etc. The protocol between the Ministry of Health and the Romanian Patriarchy is to be signed in the next period."
