HealthMin Rafila announces mapping of outpatient assessment centres and COVID testing centres

The Minister of Health, Alexandru Rafila, stated that next week an interactive map featuring the outpatient assessment centres for COVID patients will become available, Agerpres reports.

The map is also to include all testing centers, as the relevant contracts are signed by family doctors.

The Health Ministry recalled that on Tuesday he had a conference with the representatives of the public health directorates and the hospitals which can ensure medical assistance for COVID patients, but also for non-COVID patients that suffer from chronic diseases.

"We already identified a list of 160 outpatient assessment centres for patients with medium severity, probably, of the disease. But we will quickly come up with the criteria regarding the types of patients we will direct to these centers, at the national level. I believe this list will be completed and next week an interactive map with all these centers will be available, so that people know where they can go, on one hand. This interactive map will also include, as the family doctors sign the contracts, all testing centers which will become operational at the level of family medicine offices," showed the minister, during a press conference at the Victoria Palace of Government.

Rafila said that the Health Ministry has already done all that was possible to ensure the increase of access to testing, mentioning that an emergency ordinance was approved in this sense.

"We have already completed with the National Health Insurance House the form of the contract which will allow the fast payment of testing-related services to family doctors. They will come as an addendum to the vaccination [contract] for family doctors who vaccinate, or a separate one, if the family doctors do not opt for the vaccination service," said the minister.