The costs for the Cantacuzino Institute to operate are round 50 million euros, Prime Minister Mihai Tudose said Friday, pointing out that this amount is not impossible to find.
"The costs are round 50 million euro, which on a country level should mean no problems. (...) It isn't impossible to find; on the contrary. The problem is that we can't use the money to buy, because should there be a store to sell an institute tomorrow, a vaccine plant, we'd do it. We must pass though some stages," Tudose told Radio Romania Actualitati national radio station in an interview on Friday.
According to the PM, the first stage was the appointment of a new manager at the Cantacuzino Institute.
Asked if there could be a "double standard" in terms of vaccines, as there is said to be in the case of certain foods imported to Romania, Tudose said: "I want to believe that this is not possible."
At the same time, the prime minister mentioned the need to cut through the red tape in the public healthcare system.
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