Emergency medicine system of Moldova needs to be immediately reformed
19:36 | 07.11.2018 Category: Official
Chisinau, 7 November /MOLDPRES/ - Problems and deficiencies in the work of the pre-hospital emergency medical assistance service from Moldova were discussed at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Pavel Filip today. Attending the event were competent decision-makers, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
The PM said that a preliminary analysis of the emergency medicine system, made by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry, had revealed more deficiencies: a defective intervention system, a complicated chart with too many chiefs and an inefficient use of resources available.
Pavel Filip demanded that the competent ministry works out, during two weeks, a concept of the reform of the emergency service. “The emergency medicine system URGENTLY needs reformation. At the next stage, you should come up with a draft reform: beginning with the structure, staff, number of ambulances. This reform must be elaborated and enforced as soon as possible. Then we will have savings, as well as people contented with services provided,” Pavel Filip said.
The prime minister instructed the carrying out of an analysis on the need and efficiency of the repair and construction of emergency medical assistance units in Moldova during the last three years. “Separately, I want an analysis on all sub-stations, everything we have constructed and invested. Let us see – we have done them because we had to do them or because we had to spend money inefficiently? Their construction must be well-reasoned, depending on the number of residents, placement, the need of combining efforts with family medicine,” the prime minister stressed.
Presently, the emergency medical services are provided by the basic institution, National Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine National Centre, in cooperation with the AVIASAN (sanitary aviation) at the Emergency Medicine Institute, emergency departments of the hospitals and other medical units.