The Minister of Health officially announces a series of extremely important measures that have been decided and already implemented by the ministry he leads, they are thought to have an impact for millions of Romanians in terms of hospital infections and the consumption of antibiotics.
The Minister of Health talks about the big problem of the excessive consumption of antibiotics in Romania, which generates a much greater resistance to the bacteria with which people can become infected, either in hospitals or outside them, and announces new changes in the future to help Romanians from the whole country.
"In our case, the fire is represented by the absolutely exaggerated use of antibiotics, reflected in the south of the continent, compared to the north of the continent, where due to the fact that consumption is kept strictly under control, this problem of multi-resistant bacteria, which cause infections, including those associated with medical assistance, is much, much, lower.
Even if we don't know enough things, the simple observation of this fact can give us the solution for the next period. We did some things at the ministry starting from January, because we came to the conclusion that all these things cannot be solved without, first of all, the laboratory diagnostic capacity.
The microbiological diagnostic capacity is getting shorter, the legislation related to the microbiological diagnostic part had changed somewhat at the beginning of 2020, and we put things in order, and we regulated the legal framework that stipulates that in hospitals there should be a compartment, or a microbiology laboratory, to be able to carry out both types of activities.
Nothing from infectious pathology, at least if we refer to bacteria, cannot be solved without a microbiology laboratory. Also, this year we updated an order of the ministry regarding some aspects that condition, or should reduce the circulation of multi-resistant germs, and should reduce infections, referring to cleaning, disinfection, sterilization, evaluation of the effectiveness of cleaning procedures.
We still have work to do on data reporting, we collaborate with the National Institute of Public Health, but in 2022 a normative act was developed regarding the content and methodology of data reporting for all important infectious diseases within a Single Registry, and there is data on to infections associated with healthcare, which must be reported within a maximum of 24 hours."
