Minister of Health Eugen Nicolaescu asked the public health departments and pre-hospital emergency services to activate the action plans for hot weather conditions, so that the medical risks caused by high temperatures during this period to be reduced, the Ministry of Health informs in a press release. read more...

Romania currently is the only European Union country where it takes a waiting time of up to a year until a new product is evaluated in order to be included on the subsidized medicines list, said Pascal Prigent, Managing Director GSK Romania. read more...

President Traian Basescu urged Prime Minister Emil Boc to withdraw the new draft health law, at a news conference given at the presidential Cotroceni Palace this evening. read more...

The Romanian National Health Insurance House's budget has been raised by the Government by 150 million lei (EUR35 million) and another RON25 million has been allotted to the national healthcare program run by the Health Ministry. read more...

The National Printing Company (CNIN) has resumed the tender on introduction of the electronic health insurance card, a contract worth an estimated RON 110.8 M, including the Value Added Tax (VAT), after the assigning procedure was cancelled following a complaint filed by Ericsson Romania, Mediafax reported, quoting the announcement posted on the website www.e-licitatie.ro. read more...

Romania's Health Ministry will coordinate the National Health Insurance House, but the House will remain autonomous and in charge of the healthcare budget, the Government decided Wednesday through an emergency ordinance. read more...

Romania's Government should replace the clawback tax in the healthcare system with a new version and implement the proposal for co-payment as soon as possible, Jeffrey Franks, head of the IMF agreement evaluation mission, told Mediafax. read more...

Romania's Government must put an end to public fund waste in healthcare and ensure fair drug prices, a strategy that can be implemented by supplying mostly generic drugs and restructuring the entire purchase system, said Prime Minister Emil Boc on Tuesday. read more...

Romanian family doctors on Friday decided to end protests over the frame-contract on public healthcare for 2011-2012, the Health Ministry said in a press release. read more...

Romanian emergency room doctors who refuse to provide care to a patient in critical condition may be fined between 2,000 and 15,000 lei (EUR480-3600), depending on the consequences, says a draft decision drawn up by the Health Ministry. read more...

Romanian family doctors will not sign the new frame-contract with the National Health Insurance House unless it is adopted in the form agreed with the Health Ministry. read more...

More than one thousand doctors left Romania in the first months of 2011, 30% of them family doctors, Viorel Radulescu, general secretary of the Romanian Doctors' College (CMR), said Saturday. read more...

An invention of Romanian doctors at Sf. Ioan Hospital in Bucharest, awarded with a golden medal at the International Exhibition of inventions at Geneva through which the man’s own body is used for dialysis is still seeking sponsors even though it could cut treatment prices by ten times. read more...

The price of a consultation with an internist has increased 80% since 2005, from 50 lei to 90-100 lei, according to a ZF analysis based on data supplied by four clinics networks - Medicover, Romar, Medsana and Sanador - which agreed to supply the data. read more...

Private medical services operator Centrul Medical Unirea, which also holds Euroclinic hospital in Bucharest, is changing the name of all the facilities it operates to Regina Maria (Queen Mary), the private healthcare network, following a rebranding worth several hundred thousand euros. read more...

The Romanian Government gave the green light to the Health Ministry to build a network of six emergency hospitals in public-private partnership, people close to the matter told Mediafax Wednesday. read more...

Romanian hospitals will be allotted EUR15 million this year for informatization projects, Communications Minister Valerian Vreme said Saturday. read more...

Romanian family doctors decided Saturday not to sign the frame-contract with the National Health Insurance House and are prepared to take the government to court, over provisions which breach the rights of patients and physicians. read more...

Romania’s Senate committee for healthcare on Tuesday endorsed the bill introducing a copayment system for public healthcare services. read more...

Romanians insured through the public healthcare system will have to pay out of pocket for medical services they request themselves, as doctors will not be allowed to write notes or prescriptions for free/discounted medicine in such instances. read more...