Health Minister Alexandru Rafila says they are working on a project that would involve direct cooperation between centers housing the elderly and people with mental illnesses and specialized hospitals. He also says he wants these centers to be considered external wards of some psychiatric hospitals in the future, News.ro reports.

Alexandru Rafila says that the Ministry of Health has organized a crisis cell to deal with the situation of elderly people removed from shelters in Ilfov County, which are the subject of a DIICOT investigation.

• “We managed to examine all these patients who were in receptions for the homeless. Many of them needed mediation correction for psychiatric pathology. They got it. Some of them were sent to other hospitals because they had pathologies of a different nature. The matter, at least from the medical point of view, will stabilize, so that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, where there were no acute problems, a few more of them could be hospitalized, where they could treat their main diseases,” Alexandru Rafila said on Sunday evening on the air of the B1 TV channel .

Rafila explained that many of those hospitalized in these centers require “constant medical support” and that they are trying to find solutions for direct cooperation between shelters and psychiatric hospitals.

• “We are trying to find a solution very quickly, in the sense that we would like some of these centers in the future to be able to cooperate directly or even be considered external wards of some psychiatric hospitals. There is an Association of Psychiatric Hospitals in Romania, and we are already working on a small project that we hope to expand to a national level later, so that the centers that receive such people receive constant medical care, as well as external help. wards of some psychiatric hospitals because you cannot ignore this constant tracking. A doctor does not necessarily have to be there, but he can go every day to examine these patients and adjust the medicine if necessary,” the minister added.