Additional Funds for Healthcare

additional funds for healthcare The Interim government has increased the budget of the Health Ministry

In order to support the healthcare sector hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the interim government in Bucharest has disbursed an additional 66.5 million Euro to the Health Ministry from its reserve fund. The money will be used to purchase more anti-COVID-19 vaccine shots and to fund national healthcare programs. Anti-flu, anti-HPV and hexavalent vaccine shots will also be purchased. As regards the treatment of COVID patients, interim minister Cseke Attila said Romania has sufficient stocks of Remdesivir, although more stocks will be bought soon.



"70,000 new phials of Remdesivir will be bought. Right now, we have sufficient stocks to last us the next few weeks, but we want to ensure a continuous treatment in hospitals across Romania. We will start public procurement procedures for this type of drug".



The additional funds will be used to supplement the number of meal vouchers handed to people taking the anti-COVID shot, the Minister says. The new funds add to the previous two budget increases in late September, used to purchase drugs for COVID patients and to ensure the funding of the intensive care programme. In October, more money was made available from the government's reserve fund to purchase serums for the national vaccination program. The healthcare system is overrun by the large number of COVID patients and hospitals are overcrowded. Against this backdrop, a new fire was reported on Thursday morning in Ploiești, southern Romania, in a ward treating COVID patients. The fire broke out in the infectious disease ward of the Ploiești County Hospital, at the time treating 20 patients. Two patients died in the fire, and a nurse sustained serious burns. The incident follows less than a month after the fire at the Constanța Infectious Disease Hospital, which killed 7 patients. It's also the fourth such tragedy in less than a year, after the fires at Piatra Neamț, which killed 10 people, and the one at "Matei Balș" Institute in the capital city, when 4 people also died. In the last year, several other fires were reported in hospitals across the country, which could have led to tragedies. In April, three patients died when the oxygen delivery system of the mobile intensive care unit located within the premise of the "Victor Babeș" Hospital in Bucharest caught fire. (VP)



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