The President of the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), Horaţiu Moldovan, advocated that health education, an optional subject in schools, should become "much more consistent" and be taught by medical professionals.
"I don't know if health education should necessarily be a mandatory subject, but it should be much, much more consistent. Each age group should benefit from relevant information that will ultimately help us increase life expectancy, reduce the burden of diseases and, especially, chronic diseases. Children should be taught everything from hygiene to cancer prevention and what to eat and drink, but for this, the information must be delivered in a professional manner. I have all the respect for every teacher, regardless of the subject they teach, but they will never be able to convey the information that a medical professional, a doctor or a nurse, could convey, on a curriculum that we develop together. Just as theology is taught by priests, health education should be taught by doctors and nurses," Moldovan said on Thursday, during the conference "Health Forum: Cancer can be defeated through prevention, early detection and innovative therapy! 2025 Edition", organized by DC News Media Group.'
According to Moldovan, children must be taught from a young age how to prevent illness.
"It is much more important than all the money we give to health from CNAS. The impact on the next 10-20 years will be significant. We will live longer, our children will live longer and better in this sense," added the CNAS president.
Moldovan claims that for health education, "the Ministry of Health could authorize and certify doctors and nurses."
"Family doctors in rural communities believe that they would be happy, given the workload they have at their offices, to be able to transmit much of the information that they cannot transmit at their offices because they have no one to share it with, because no one comes for prevention," added Moldovan.
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