Mihai Matei, president of the Association of Employers of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) and co-founder of Geeks for Democracy, said in a Facebook post three weeks ago, seven years after the fire at the Colectiv club, that he has been trying to launch an app for the MOH for two years treatment of burned patients. Although it is already ready, it still had to be approved by the Ministry of Health commission, then adopted and implemented, but the matter stalled because the responsible person stopped responding to her messages. In the end, the Romanian IT expert was called to the ministry, where they explained to him the reasons why the application could not be used, although he had previously been told that it could be used.

“In 2022, we also have everything. We have ended the saga with this app for burn patients. It is resolved, it is not necessary, it is not useful,” Mihai Matei begins his message.

• “After I wrote on Facebook about the app, I was called to the Ministry of Health to discuss how to unblock it. That’s what I thought. Sanchi. At first, the doctor explained to me that there are no requested changes in the application and therefore it cannot be used (I will not go into technical details, it will take a long time). The change was made a year ago, even at the request of the doctor in question, who, seeing the statement, said it was very good.
• Now she was already bad. The doctor in question also started the discussion by asking me what I was betting on and other dubious questions. They must have suspected that I wanted to do some combination, although I told them several times that I was not taking money from them, that it was free, mocha, no cheating.
• After that they told me that we discussed with the committee which was not a good committee at all and wait another committee will see it now and we will come back. To specialists. I ended up talking to them in the meeting and on the phone afterwards and told them that we were still working if there were any changes they wanted, that we would also provide them with the source code, etc. Last week they gave me an email with a response from another commission, a good one, and in short, we have everything, it’s not useful, it’s not necessary,” wrote the Romanian IT professional.

The President of the Association of Employers of the Software and Services Industry presented the reasons cited by the Ministry of Health, which he analyzed point by point

“They gave me four reasons, and all of them are subtle.

• 1. That use in specialized burn centers is excluded. Well, it was not used for that. It was for others who don’t specialize.
• 2. So that the medical staff knew what to do, because they learned it at school. Well, they don’t interfere, but help. In the application, in addition to those calculations, there was also an area where you could enter medical protocols, etc. How would they come to treat the burned according to the protocol.
• 3. That GDPR.Sanchi, as an application, does not oblige you to take the patient’s name (it was optional). In any case, the GDPR argument has become the perfect defense in the public sector to do nothing.
• 4. That this is already an application in French. Yes, we know that too because we’ve looked at it and how it works, but
• (1) she does not appear in any protocol and I doubt the midwife in the village has heard of her
• (2) it’s French, which is a beautiful language, but not necessarily spoken by everyone in Romania
• (3) it is not a program that the Ministry controls or can change in any way. He doesn’t even calculate, as the doctor says. Although it was adapted to what they said
• (4) this program only performs calculations, it also has a case register, this area for protocol, security and many other functionalities (at their request),” wrote Matei, who ended his post with bitter resignation.