The National Union "Forţa Legii" is asking the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, for "fair" salaries for medical assistants in the public health system, "real" increases, "decent" working conditions and adequate equipment for hospitals.
"After years of promises, patchwork and institutional ignorance, the reality in hospitals is increasingly harsh: nurses are undervalued, overworked and unprotected, despite the vital role they play in keeping the healthcare system afloat," the union said in an open letter to Minister Rogobete, agerpres reports.
The National Union "Forta Legii" demands a fair, equitable and consistent salary in accordance with the responsibilities of medical assistants and claims that they are paid "unjustifiably low" in relation to the level of work, professional risks and volume of activity. The union demands the correction of the salary scale, the elimination of inequities, discrimination and a salary that reflects real work and not bureaucratic one.
According to the unionists, "real" increases are needed. "We work in guard rooms, ATI, UPU, oncology wards, psychiatry, surgery, infectious disease hospitals and, despite this, the increases do not reflect the real risks. We demand a national rethinking of the system of increases, so that they are transparent, unitary and proportional to the degree of exposure and danger," the open letter also states.
Another request from the nurses concerns working conditions, citing the fact that the guild members are "often" forced to compensate for shortages in equipment, sanitary materials or personnel. "It is not normal that, in 2025, we have to improvise instead of treating. There is an urgent need for investments in hospital infrastructure and in the logistics of the medical act," the letter explains.
The urgent release of the posts and stopping the "exodus" is another demand of the unionists, drawing attention to the fact that the lack of personnel leads to physical and emotional exhaustion. "In hospitals, a medical assistant is sometimes forced to serve 30-40 patients alone. We demand the immediate release of the posts, the hiring of sufficient personnel and the establishment of a sustainable national employment plan," the medical assistants indicated.
According to the "Forta Legii" Union, a profound reform of the Order of Medical Assistants is necessary. "OAMGMAMR has become an inefficient, opaque structure and disconnected from the realities of the profession. We demand a profound institutional reform: democratically elected leadership, real representation of professional interests and a restructuring of the approval, control and training mechanisms," the open letter states.
Real continuing professional training represents another demand of medical assistants, who declare themselves "fed up with paid courses, not adapted to medical practice".
"It is time to choose between real reform or accelerated decline. Healthcare cannot be done without nurses, and nurses can no longer work at the limit of exhaustion and dignity. If the Ministry of Health continues to ignore us, protests and union actions will not be long in coming. We publicly ask you to treat these demands seriously and urgently, because without us, the system is failing," the nurses sent to the Minister of Health.
Nurse Marius Sepi, vice president of the National Union "Forţa Legii", stressed that the union "does not ask for privileges, but respect, fairness and decent working conditions". "After a life spent in hospitals, I can say with certainty: if we do not change now, we risk losing an entire generation of professionals from the system," Sepi added.
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