​Family doctors are asking the Ministry of Health to create, together with the Special Communication Service, a site where pharmacies can check whether potassium iodide is prescribed on the CNP, so that people who want to pick up iodine pills at a pharmacy no longer need to first contact their family doctor for a prescription.

“We once again ask the Ministry of Health, together with the Special Communication Service, to create a website on which pharmacies can check whether potassium iodide has already been released at the KNP,” the National Federation of Family Physicians’ Patronages said in a statement. statement

The creation of such a site, say representatives of family doctors, will take a maximum of one hour: “The application must be made to the Ministry of Health together with an urgent change to the order of the Minister of Health No. 1648/2022, regarding the cancellation of a prescription from a family doctor and the implementation of the website created by the DPS.”

General practitioners are unhappy that iodine prescriptions cannot be written online

The National Federation of Family Physicians’ Associations on Monday reacted to statements by Health Minister Alexandru Rafil indicating that patients may have to wait days or weeks for an appointment to receive a prescription for potassium iodide pills.

“In light of the Minister of Health’s announcement that people under the age of 40 should immediately contact their family doctor for a prescription for potassium iodide, we inform patients with existing health problems that they may have to wait several days or weeks before they can make an appointment for a consultation with a family doctor,” the National Federation of Family Physician Associations said in a statement.

The GPs show that ‘medical and surgical emergencies are a priority and, according to guidance from the Health Secretary today, healthy people under the age of 40 who want a prescription for potassium iodide, which they will later collect from 2,500 pharmacies. according to the list posted on the website of the Ministry”.

Family doctors also warn that these prescriptions cannot be sent online, as physical presence in the office is mandatory: “Please note that prescriptions cannot be sent via Whatsapp, email, as physical presence in the office is mandatory. It should be noted that since this morning the Unified Integrated Information System of CNAS has been working with interruptions, therefore there may be delays in scheduled consultations as well.”

“We apologize to our patients for the situation in which the Minister of Health once again put us,” concludes the National Federation of Family Physicians’ Patronages.

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