The executive decided on Thursday, by decision, to supplement the budget of the Ministry of Health with the amount of 20 million lei, from the Budgetary Reserve Fund at the disposal of the Government, in order to ensure medical treatment abroad for patients with serious and very serious conditions that cannot be treated in Romania.
According to a Government press release, this supplement supports patients who undergo treatments in several stages, according to therapeutic plans established by medical units abroad, their continuity being necessary.
The measure is of an emergency nature, given the significantly increased number of patients waiting for over 40 days for approval of treatment financing, given that most cases are classified as medical emergencies, the cited source specifies.
The press release states that the need to supplement the funds was determined by the following main causes:
- using the majority of the initial budget for state-of-the-art oncological therapies, which are not available in Romania (such as proton/carbon ion radiotherapy or radionuclide therapies);
- the increase in the number of infants aged 0-1 diagnosed at birth with serious conditions requiring liver transplantation, an intervention that cannot be performed in Romania and involves high costs (approx. 130,000 euros/infant, in the absence of complications);
- the need to perform highly complex medical surgical procedures, available only in certain centers abroad;
- increasing the number of patients accessing these services, as a result of better information regarding treatment rights (135 patients in 2022, 162 in 2023 and 2024, and by August 1, 2025 -134 patients).
"Also, the request for additional funds allocated for treatments abroad is justified by the obligation generated by Civil Sentence no. 485/2024 of 14.11.2024 of the Craiova Court of Appeal, which has remained final, by which the Ministry of Health must ensure the equivalent value of the treatment of a patient diagnosed with a rare disease, the cost of which is approximately 6.4 million RON - almost a quarter of the budget allocated for the entire year 2025," according to the press release.
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