The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete, asked doctors working in both the public and private systems to respect the work schedule in the public system.
He also announced that from September 1, the salaries of residents working in private hospitals will be paid by the respective health units.
At the same time, together with representatives of the Employers' Association of Private Medical Service Providers (PALMED), the "Trust is good for us" campaign will be launched this fall, to promote all the measures that the public and private healthcare systems carry out in partnership.
The clarifications were made during a press conference held at the Ministry of Health, after Alexandru Rogobete met with PALMED representatives.
"Since I took office, I have gone public and said some things that here and there have disturbed and created pressure. I will continue to say them, but this time, alongside the representative of private hospitals in Romania, on my right. I ask all colleagues in the public hospital to respect the work schedule. I do not agree that the doctor should choose between public and private. Medicine is a field with its own particularities and we cannot separate the waters so abruptly and so abruptly. However, respecting the work schedule in the public hospital is, according to the legislation, mandatory. The doctor has the freedom, obviously, after completing this schedule to work wherever he wants, in large private hospital chains, in his own private practice - wherever he has the possibility to carry out his medical service, but respecting the public schedule," said the minister.
He emphasized that his observations do not refer to all doctors and that there are many "wonderful people" in the healthcare system who work well overtime or who work more hours than the regulations require.
"I don't want to generalize, but we all know that there are exceptions of colleagues who at 11:00, at 12:00 are no longer in the public hospital and work in the private system. I'm not saying that they are necessarily in the large private hospital chains, but they work in the private sector. If we fail to reduce this phenomenon, we all have something to lose. From patients who stand in 40 degrees in front of hospitals to wait for the doctor, to their doctor colleagues who stay until 8-9 pm after hours, in the public system and finally in the private system," explained Rogobete.
He mentioned that from September 1, the salaries of residents working in private hospitals will be paid by the private health units. In this regard, he recalled that currently residents are paid by the Ministry of Health, even if they work in private hospitals.
Also, the Ministry of Health and PALMED will launch the "Trust is good for us" campaign this fall, to promote all the measures that the public and private healthcare systems carry out in partnership.
"I'm referring to screening programs, not just for oncology, but also for other pathologies, cardiology, cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases. I'm referring here to clinical and paraclinical investigation programs, imaging and laboratory. I'm referring in general to what the health system means and its complementarity," he explained.
Alexandru Rogobete emphasized that the private healthcare system complements the public system, where it lacks sufficient material, human and infrastructure resources.
"It is true that in the last 4-5 years the infrastructure and situation of public hospitals has changed a lot. There has been a transformation, if you will, of the public health system, through investments made with money from the PNRR, with funds from the World Bank, with government funds and the list can certainly go on. Now, in 2025, we are at the point where the public system is on par in terms of infrastructure, in many places, with the private system," the minister also specified.A
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