The Health system is on the verge of collapse, one newspaper reads on Wednesday. Elsewhere in the news, one newspaper reconstructs the money circuit put in place by media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. Last but not least, find out what Bulgarians have and Romanians are missing.
Gandul reads on Wednesday that the Romanian Health system is on the verge of collapse: half of the doctors in Romania will eventually leave abroad, medicine is missing from hospitals and doctors and nurses have lower salaries.
On top of all this, the Health ministry submitted a draft for public debate where hospitals in Romania are classified in five categories and among the criteria are: the number of beds, the level of technical equipment, the medical personnel and their education level and type of services offered.
According to the draft project, hospitals will be of five categories. Those hospitals with a general specialization need to have 500 to 1500 beds, to supply all types of medical services, to function as clinics for education and research and to be able to serve 1.5 to 3.5 million people.
Those with a limited specialization will be hospitals that offer care for chronic diseases or those that have just one specialization. According to officials, those with a complete specialization will receive more money than the latter.
Opinions vary: there are hospital directors who agree with the classification on grounds that some hospitals need more money than others while others are dissatisfied with the classification based on the number of beds on grounds that hospitals cannot reject patients just because there are no beds.
Evenimentul zilei reconstructs the money circuit set up by media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu for Romanian Nicolae Popa who escaped the country to avoid a 15 years sentence. The newspaper reads that the mone
