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Patients with acute or chronic pain in Romania will benefit from free pain therapy services. They will be able to call on the new services from the beginning of October, if they are not cured of their symptoms.
These medical services involve diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients with acute or chronic pain.
Law 208/2024 for the amendment and completion of Law no. 95/2006 on health reform was published in Official Gazette at the beginning of July.
Patients who will receive free pain therapy services
The law is to introduce a new right for insured patients in the state medical system, namely the right to receive medical services for pain therapy. According to the new law, the insured have the right to medical services for the cure of the disease, for the prevention of its complications, for the recovery after the disease and for the therapy of pain, notes avocat.net.
As defined in the document, medical services for pain therapy are the set of medical services for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients of all ages, children or adults, with acute or chronic pain, with the aim of improving their quality of life by controlling or removing pain.
Pain, on the other hand, is defined as the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or appearing to be associated with, actual or potential tissue injury.
In the case of insured persons benefiting from medical services for pain therapy, pain management will be done within evidence-based medicine, in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner, based on medical practice guidelines, national medical practice protocols, operational medical practice protocols or therapeutic protocols, respectively within personalized medicine.
Pain alters the quality of life
According to the initiators, “pain alters the quality of life, sends a person to the doctor and must be treated. For this purpose, it is necessary to apply international good practice regarding pain therapy in Romanian legislation”.
Although in primary legislation there are references to ‘alleviating suffering’ of patients, pain is addressed in secondary legislation in only two areas: anesthesia and intensive care, as well as palliative care.
In the world, currently, there are pain therapy centers in several countries, including the United States of America, Italy or Germany.
Source: www.doctorulzilei.ro
