The new National Catalog of Human Drug Prices (CANAMED) will be published this week, Health Minister Patriciu Achimas-Cadariu told the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, during the Government Question Time weekly debate. He was invited at the Parliament to debate the cancer patients' access to diagnostic and treatment. He admitted "deficiencies" in the national oncology programme and mentioned Tamoxifen, a drug produced by Unifarm, will be introduced in the forthcoming CANAMED, but other problems could occur.
As regards radiotherapy, he mentioned that he has personally participated in the latest videoconference with the World Bank on this topic, as several relevant committees had overlapping authorities. According to Achimas-Cadariu, Romania is the latest European country to draft a comprehensive integrated plan for cancer control; it is based on the national healthcare strategy and on European regulations, and since it has proved useful, it was used as a model for other medical branches, he asserted.