Health Minister Alexandru Rafila wants to set up a national body to review how medical services are carried out and delivered after doctors who did not intervene left Aleksandr Ivanov to die for days. “If you refuse to fulfill your duty as a doctor, we are not talking about negligence, we are talking about something else,” Rafila said.

• “Negligence means that you performed a medical activity that was inappropriate. But if you refuse to fulfill your duty as a doctor, then we are not discussing negligence, we are discussing something else. As I told you after the tragic incident in Botoshan, and I am absolutely horrified by the pain of that family who lost a mother of several children who was not given medical care, I want to find a formula that will have authority at the national level. at the level to check the way medical services are provided,” Alexandru Rafila said at a press conference on Sunday, News.ro reported.

How would this body, which checks how medical care is provided, work

• “This body, from my point of view, should include representatives of the Ministry of Health. The legislative levers that I have found and that you know in the Ministry of Health regarding medical activities are summarized in the State Sanitary Inspection, which checks compliance with hygienic and sanitary conditions in hospitals, or here we discuss everything with everything else. And then we have to find a legislative mechanism that would allow the actions of the Ministry of Health, which are perceived by society and are ultimately correct, to be responsible for how medical care is provided, to create real partnerships with the College. Doctors and county colleges under this mandate, with the National Health Quality Authority, because we have had discussions with Mr. President, and we are trying to change the principles of work together. They should change them, they are under the General Secretariat of the Government, they are not under the Ministry of Health. We must accredit medical services that are actually provided. We must not certify hypothetical medical services. And, of course, with the payer, the payer is the National Chamber and district health insurance funds,” said Alexandru Rafila.

He also added that the ministry will come with such a project next month.

• “I assure you that next month we will come with a coherent project that will form a body, I don’t know if it will be called authority or if it will be called something else, it doesn’t matter how it will be called, it is important to give leverage to be able to effectively check the way medical services are provided, to be able to impose sanctions, which may be financial or of another nature, to those who refuse to provide medical services to the population, certainly within the framework of respect,” the Minister of Health also stated.

What Rafila says about the physical and verbal abuse of medical staff

• “And here I would like to insist, because very often the medical body is attacked, attacked verbally, attacked physically. These things have to stop because at the end of the day, an emergency room doctor or nurse cannot provide medical care to patients if they are assaulted, followed, abused or threatened. This must be stopped, because otherwise we are turning into something other than the European medical system. We advocate both aspects, so that there is a balance. We cannot endlessly blame the medical personnel and forget that there are many situations when the medical personnel are prevented from carrying out their activities in various ways,” explained the Minister of Health.

It will be recalled that 25-year-old Oleksandra Ivanova died on August 18, almost nine hours after being hospitalized in the Botosani maternity hospital. She was three months pregnant and arrived at the hospital on August 17, around 11:30 p.m., complaining of pain and bleeding.

After she was given a series of tests and an infusion, the medical staff ignored her all night. The next morning, her health deteriorated significantly, and she died in the anesthesia-resuscitation department.

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