Doctor Mihaela Zacharia from the Capital University Hospital claims that there are many people in Romania who are not insured and who, in order to use medical services, turn to emergency departments of hospitals, although in many cases it is not a matter of emergency medical care, News.ro reports. .

“There are a lot of people who don’t pay medical fees, and if they don’t, they know that the only place they can go and get checked out without paying is an emergency hospital. This is not good for the public health care system, because they usually have to pay the minimum contribution for health care. It is not very much, about 120 lei per month. Many times there are people who are present at the guardhouse, and we even explain to them: it is not such a large amount, you can go to the Health Center to pay individually, it is not necessary that they be employed somewhere, they can pay in their own name. me, on a physical person,” said doctor Mihaela Zaharia on the air of Medika TV on Tuesday evening.

According to her, very often patients who come to emergency hospitals are not emergencies and are never turned away, in which case the workload becomes “skyrocketing”.