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The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rafila, announced that experts from the European and World Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care will not conduct “an investigation” at St. Pantelimon Hospital, but a professional evaluation related to protocols and procedures.
“We are waiting for these experts to come. We accessed two organizations: the European and the World Organization of Intensive Care Specialists. Both organizations responded. The idea is not necessarily to evaluate the situation there, from Pantelimon, they don’t come to do an investigation, they come to do a professional evaluation related to protocols, procedures and, more than that, to be able to have an open discussion in the public space, but also in the professional area regarding the protocols that must be used in Romania for patients in terminal situations”, said the minister.
Romania needs 4,000 beds for palliative care
He estimated that 4,000 beds are needed nationally for patients who need palliative care. Currently, there are 3,300 such beds.
“We currently have 3,300 beds, of which 3,000 are under contract with health insurance companies, but we are not only discussing beds for palliative care, because an important component, the one that was addressed today, in fact, refers to the care at the patient’s home, when specialized people travel to the patient’s home to provide these palliative cares. I know that all kinds of figures have been circulating, that we only have 20%, that we have 5%.
I am telling you that the program that was made with Norwegian funds – including those from the Hospice worked, ANMCS, the Ministry of Health, hospital representatives were part of this program – and the estimated number of beds for palliative care in Romania, necessary , is around 4,000″, said the minister, according to the report Agerpres.
The ATI section at St. Pantelimon Hospital is undergoing renovation
Regarding the renovation works at the St. Pantelimon Hospital, Rafila explained that in the first instance, a space that had the role of an intensive care unit during the pandemic will be renovated and sanitized. After moving the equipment to this space, the current section will also be renovated.
“I met repeatedly with the new management of the hospital, there was also a field visit to the hospital. What we will do in the next period will be the arrangement of a space in which to relocate the ward or part of the intensive therapy ward, which will undergo a complete renovation process. Regarding other elements related to the criminal investigation, we do not have any other information”, the minister highlighted.
Signal for public opinion
Rafila explained that the renovation works are necessary because the medical unit has not benefited from such investments “for many years” rehabilitation. “Even the doctors’ working conditions were, let’s say, not the best.
On the other hand, we must give a clear signal to the public opinion, to the patients, that in the Pantelimon Hospital things are evolving in a way that will give them the confidence to go to this hospital which, I must say, has a lot of good quality professionals and it’s a shame not to use this professional medical body from St. Pantelimon Hospital”, he emphasized.
Rafila reiterated that he authorized the control team from the Ministry of Health to move to the Saint Pantelimon Hospital, after complaints of an administrative nature made by the head nurse and an ATI doctor.
Source: www.doctorulzilei.ro
