In Romania, patients need to bring medicine and equipment from home when hospitalised. Elsewhere in the news, Romania comes out of the recession, but not out of the crisis. Last but not least, foreigners lead a good life in Romania once they learn how it ticks.
In Romania, patients need to bring medicine and equipment from home when hospitalised, Gandul reads. Romanian PM Emil Boc asked each and every minister to present the "standard cost" per sector, namely the acquisitions prices in every ministry. According to the list of cost standards the publication obtained, a regional emergency hospital, counting 108,000 sqm and 786 hospitalization beds should cost exactly 151.6 million euros.
If hospitals had to survive on these funds, it would mean cutting down basic materials needed. 65% of the medical products that make it to Romanian hospitals come from China, Pakistan and Korea, according to suppliers. Medical staff asks patients to bring their own medicine, even anaesthetics, because of the difficult financial conditions hospitals are in.
President of the Medical Goods Suppliers Association (AFPM) Mihnea Ioan Grecu claims that hospitals try to buy cheaper and cheaper goods from one month to another. "For two years now, for a continuously smaller amount of money, hospitals are trying to buy the same quantity of goods", he said. According to him, the Asian countries from where Romania is importing, there isn't a quality control like in the EU or the US. There are contamination issues. Many goods come with false certificates.
The president of the institute checking the goods supplies, namely Lazar Iordache from the Technical Authority for Medical Devices (OTDM) told TV reporters that the body check goods when there is an incident. AFPM includes 36 companies, but the total number of suppliers is 350-400.
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