Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu on Thursday announced in a debate on the healthcare system in Romania that most likely next week the government will issue an emergency ordinance on the hospital management professionalisation.
"Another battle for us is the professionalisation of the hospital management, and here the Government will also have an emergency ordinance most likely next week, operating some changes that we believe are welcome. At this moment, if we take any of the clinical hospitals in Bucharest, (...) if we want to bring a manager from AKH [Vienna, Austria], or the John Hopkins manager [Baltimore, US], that manager could not work in Romania because he or she isn't a university professor. They couldn't participate in the hiring competition. They are not professors or board certified physicians. These are the requirements to be able to participate in the manager hiring contest," the minister explained,
In his opinion, the manager should make sure including that the hospital looks decent and the toilets are clean.
He maintained that the rules in the healthcare system have not been observed for a long time.
According to him, nosocomial infections must be "correctly" reported and this will be stipulated in the new management contract.
Referring to medicines, Voiculescu said that any price policy represents "a compromise."
He pointed out that he will not leave the ministry until his last day of tenure.
"There are still many things to do. This is also the reason for which I will not leave the ministry until the last day. (...) There are transparency measures that have never been implemented, not only in the healthcare system, but I would dare say in most central public institutions. We are talking about transparency of public contracts, acquisitions, sponsorships," Vlad Voiculescu also said.
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