In Romania, people refusing to get the swine flu jab wil have to pay for treatment and hospitalisation in case of an infection. Elsewhere in the news, a new financial crisis paradox: county employment agency is broke and prepared to declare bankruptcy. Last but not least, heavy snows block roads and railways.
Evenimentul Zilei reads the risk persons who refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu will have to pay up the treatment and hospitalisation in case they catch the virus, state secretary in the Health Ministry Dr. Adrian Streinu-Cercel announced. The risk groups are police, medical staff, professors, border guards and the chronically ill. The vaccine costs 4 lei, while a diagnosis test costs 200 lei, plus antiviral drugs, antibiotics and a huge hospitalisation fee. Up until yesterday, 30,000 people got the jab. The authorities aim for 8,500,000.
People do not seem to trust the A/H1N1 jab and postpone or refuse vaccination. In Timis (West), only 10% of the 65,750 dosis have been used. GPs in Bucharest. face management issues: they were supposed to collect the jabs from public health administration offices, but very few have done so. Some GP say they are not notified and learn what they need to do from the press.
The authorities claim the vaccine should be taken because the number of dead continues to grow. The official number of dead people infected with swine flu has now reached 25 in Romania, with the last seven being recorded during the last two days.
The County Employment Agency in Cluj (Central-West) is broke and prepared to declare bankruptcy, Cotidianul informs. The agency had been unable to pay its utility bills for two months now and all the money it gets is used to pay for unemployment benefits. The agency's manager sent letters to utilities providers, asking them to be patient, but since he did not get an
