Alexandru Rafila proposes a national plan for end-of-life care

In the version broadcast live from Ghandour, the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rafila, touched on some of the topics he discussed with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolakou regarding the improvement of the health system, with a particular focus on the necessary reforms in intensive care units and in the management of serious cases. Watch the full show with Marius Tucă here

Rafila put forward a series of measures and recommendations aimed at meeting current challenges and meeting patients’ needs more effectively.

Alexandru Raffaella: “We need to understand what happened from a medical point of view”

One of the high-impact proposals discussed by Minister Raffaella was a request to the European Intensive Care Society and the World Intensive Care Society for an independent professional audit of the Pantelimon Hospital.

“We need to be able to understand what’s going on from a medical perspective and, in addition, bring their expertise from the state into the broad public debate,” Rafira said.

Alexandru Rafila: “Pain management is extremely important”

The Health Minister stressed the need to improve communication between hospitals and patients’ families. He admitted that there are currently disparities in the way hospitals handle communication.

“Pain management is extremely important, especially for patients with serious illnesses, and to make the transition dignified. Information and discussion with the family. I think we have a weakness here, and one of the measures I proposed to the Prime Minister also mentioned the way of communication, not necessarily the way the hospital communicates with the family. Some hospitals do this very well, some do it less well”, the Minister continued.

Alexandru Rafila: “We have 3,300 palliative care beds”

In addition, Rafira proposes the creation of palliative care units in hospitals that treat critically ill patients. These structures should be directly connected to intensive care units and benefit from doctors specialized in palliative care, ensuring comprehensive and respectful care for patients.

“Let us create palliative care units in all these hospitals that treat critically ill patients. We now have 3,300 palliative beds, but these palliative beds and the way to finance the medical activities of these palliative beds, they must be connected in some way to the intensive care units, where there must be doctors who are capable of carrying out palliative care and who work closely with the critical care doctors”, explained Minister Rafila.

Alexandru Rafila: “I discovered that the Ministry of Health has a blocked project”

Another important aspect that Minister Rafila touched on is related to the computerization of intensive care units, which aims to replace paper documents with digital solutions, facilitating the monitoring of patient parameters and treating them in a more efficient way.

“I found a project in the Ministry of Health that was blocked two and a half years ago, a project to computerize the ATI sector. What does this project mean? It means that paper actually disappears from the medical procedures you write, and everything you do with the patient, the monitoring of the patient’s parameters, the parameters related to the treatment will be found in digital form”, Rafila concluded.

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