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| Healthcare report 25/03/2011 |
| (2011-03-25) |
| Last updated: 2011-03-28 16:05 EET |
Romania continues to rank lowest in Europe when it comes to healthcare. This is shown in the latest report on inequities in the system, published by the Romanian Medical Association. As shown in the report, the country records the lowest healthcare expenditures, the lowest access to medical care at home and the highest cancer death rates in women. Vasile Astarastoaie, head of the Medical Association, gives an explanation to this:
“There are great inequities in the allocation of human resources. We have an average of 2.2 doctors per 1 000 people. There are also inequities in the allocation of technological equipment and funds from the National Health Service. In other words, money is not put to good use to help the patient.”
Talking about solutions, doctors prescribe boosting healthcare funding, as this sector is known for being alarmingly underfunded, and promoting collaboration with the private sector, which would bring some financial relief, as has been the case in other European countries.
The Medical Association also draws attention to the need of consistent policies to stop the outflow of doctors moving abroad, unhappy with low salaries and working conditions in Romania. Talking about medical malpractice, an extremely sensitive issue in Romania, doctors point to the need for real, not just formal, collaboration with responsible authorities. A response to the doctors’ proposal was given by Cristian Irimie, state secretary with the Ministry of Health.
“We aim to form a workgroup, to come up with a true malpractice law to serve patients and doctors alike. The current law is bad for both patients and medical personnel.”
In turn, president of the Federation of Doctors’ Unions Florin Chirculescu believes that responsibility in the case of malpractice should be divided equally between all parties in the system, insurance companies included.
Doctors also propose creating more companies to break the monopoly of the National Health Service, which would also provide patients with a wider range of services. Whether the solutions proposed by the Romanian Medical Association will actually benefit the patients, sick and tired from the side effects of the so-called reforms applied so far, remains to be seen.
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