Premier Tudose meets representatives of family doctors at Victoria Palace (sources)

Prime Minister Mihai Tudose is meeting on Monday morning, at Victoria Palace, with representatives of family doctors, stated for AGERPRES governmental sources. 

According to the quoted sources, Deputy Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu is also attending the meeting. 

At the beginning of the Government's meeting of 15 November, premier Tudose affirmed that family doctors have had to turn "more into accountants than do their job." 

"They truly have a point and unfortunately they are entirely right. I am saying unfortunately because the system is still cumbersome, very bureaucratic and family doctors have turned into or were forced to turn rather into accountants than do their job. We are trying to find solutions. The first stage takes place on Friday, during a draft-based consultation and starting with Monday, let us try, together with the Finance Ministry, to settle some things," Tudose stated at that time. 

On 15 November the premier discussed at the government seat with a delegation of family doctors who protested in Victoria Square. 

At the same time, representatives of family doctors and patients from several counties picketed at the beginning of the month the headquarters of prefectures and the county health insurance houses. They denounced the underfunding of primary health care and the fact that family doctors have an impossible task in fulfilling their job under optimum conditions. 

President of the Romanian National Society of Family Medicine Dr. Rodica Tanasescu was saying at the beginning of the month that the law in force should be modified with regard to administrative rules of prescription which include a lot of provisions forbidding the family doctor to fill frequently used medication prescriptions to which the patient has no access, but not as regards professional rules.