PSD leader Marcel Cholaku said in response to a question that he did not “panic” after the statement by Health Minister Alexandru Rafila, claiming that it was “not a bad intention” but that he had to change the communication team. It will be recalled that the other day Rafila urged “everyone” under 40 to contact their family doctor as soon as possible for iodine tablets.

• “No. I think it was poorly presented and argued, but Mr. Rafila came out with a warning – “sir, let’s not create an agglomeration if a catastrophe happens in Ukraine.”
• So it was not a bad intention of the minister.
• I think he needs to work better with the communication team he has in the ministry or change it, which is not a shame when you change when something is not working,” Marcel Cholak said on Tuesday when asked if he called the same panic as the rest of the population, Rafila’s announcement.

Alexandru Rafila urged “everyone” on Monday to contact their family doctor as soon as possible for a medical prescription for potassium iodide tablets, which can then be obtained at the nearest pharmacy.

• Family doctors ask the Ministry of Health and the State Health Service to create a site on the basis of which pharmacies can dispense iodine: “It takes a maximum of an hour”

Millions of iodine tablets are waiting to be picked up free of charge by Romanians under 40 from some 2,500 pharmacies across the country, says the health minister, who admits, however, that “the world is not very interested”.

• “The distribution of potassium iodide tablets is quite effective, I urge everyone, all people under 40 years of age, to contact a family doctor as soon as possible, from whom you need to get a prescription, and we have 2,500 pharmacies. the whole country where they can get these pills for free.
• So, it’s a perfectly functional system, it’s important that people use the system that we managed to implement,” Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said on Monday at a press conference at the ministry’s headquarters, answering a journalist’s question.

Asked by journalists what percentage of the total number of tablets distributed so far, Rafila replied that “I don’t have the figure, but I don’t think it’s a big percentage.”

This spring, the National State Reserve Authority purchased 30 million tablets of potassium iodide worth 6 million euros. Potassium iodide tablets were produced by Antibiotice Iași.

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