Health economics

The video, shot at the Special Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases Dr. Vasa Savic in Zrenjanin, a town in northern Serbia, also shows the patient left unattended in the hall as no doctors had been immediately available to examine him, and the ambulance technicians in a hurry to leave.

Over 4 million Romanian patients will have to pay for primary medical care or register with another doctor in 2018, after 2,500 family doctors said they would not cooperate with the government health insurance company as part of a protest against red tape and a lack of funds.

Refugees and migrants in Greece receive little or no medical care for most health problems they face and fewer than half of those pregnant had access to maternal care, aid group Doctors of the World said on Tuesday.

The national framework agreement of the National Health Insurance Fund is in effect as of today, reinstating the contract basis between the National Health Insurance Fund and the organisations in the sector, according to BNR.

The Turkish government is starting the "second phase in its transformation of the health sector" with a view to attracting patients from abroad, according to Health Minister Recep Akdağ. 

Montenegro's Health Insurance Fund says the public health system needs to find a new financial model to overcome its current crisis and provide care to thousands of people struggling to access basic care.

Six in 10 death certificates issued in Greece contain serious errors, the head of the association representing the country's coroners told a medical conference on Crete.

The majority of the mistakes are located in the way cause of death is described and recorded, according to Grigoris Leon, who called for more vigorous training, starting at medical school.

Over 3 billion euros of debts owed by state healthcare provider EOPYY to Greek public hospitals will be written off, following an amendment submitted in Parliament on Monday by the Health Ministry and aimed at putting the beleaguered organization's finances in order.

Health Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis on Monday unveiled a plan aimed at helping some 2.5 million uninsured citizens gain access to free healthcare.

Under Kouroublis?s plan, which is expected to be enforced by next month, millions of uninsured citizens will be able to apply for health booklets at Citizens? Information Centers (KEPs).

Bulgaria's health care system has the potential to considerably boost its performance while cutting out-of-pocket spending, the World Bank has said.