The head of the DSU, Raed Arafat, said that all NATO countries are preparing their health care system for war. The Secretary of State at the MAI announced that Romania has taken on a €96.5 million project to create a medical, detection and monitoring stockpile on the chemical, biological and radionuclear side.

Raed Arafat told Digi24 that no country has military hospitals with all the specialties to meet the needs of the military, so any civilian hospital will eventually receive possibly wounded soldiers or civilians, News.ro reports.

“If the VPU or if in civilian hospitals, in the event of a conflict, we will accept patients, that’s normal. All of Europe, everyone sees that the military, if they are wounded, will one day end up in civilian hospitals. No country has military hospitals with all the specialties that meet the needs of the military. So any civilian hospital will eventually receive possibly the wounded, military or civilian,” said the head of the DSU.

Raed Arafat clarified that “we still need to work on the system, from the side of intensive therapy and surgical capabilities.”

“Here, too, there is work to be done. Know that the work is not only carried out in Romania. Work is being carried out everywhere to prepare the health care systems of NATO member countries for a possible conflict situation. Even if everyone says that it is very unlikely and that you should not panic, it is, but it is necessary to be prepared. And last year, it’s no secret that NATO held a meeting of the health protection group, which I have the honor of coordinating for several years,” Arafat said.

He clarified that it was about the need for greater readiness of systems so that collective accidents, regardless of their cause, receive a large number of victims.

“That they come from another country, that they come from the country, if they come because of a conflict or they come because of a disaster, we still have to be ready. Therefore, I can say that we have even more, but we are growing, we are growing in stocks, in drugs, in sanitary materials. We recently undertook a €96.5 million project to build a medical, detection and monitoring stockpile on the chemical, biological and radionuclear side. The stock that we are creating in Romania on behalf of the European Union and there are other countries like us that have taken such amounts to do the same. All this increases the level of preparation,” Arafat said.