Healthcare

Health Minister Nicolae Banicioiu speaks in an interview to AGERPRES about the ethics councils of public hospitals; they would be made functional, with extended duties, in a pilot programme in five hospitals to implement a patient feedback mechanism. He also mentions the checks carried out and the irregularities found in the healthcare system.

An increasing number of Greeks are seeking some form of private health insurance to supplement their state health cover, according to the results of a nationwide survey which pointed to a 60 percent rise in citizens opting for private care.

Outgoing Health Minister Tanya Andreeva on Monday said Bulgaria is unlikely to soon push through the long-delayed reform of its healthcare sector.

SpitalOnline.ro, the first doctor-patient live chat platform in Europe has been launched in Romania on Tuesday, on a business initiative of several Romanian doctors supported by British experts, involving an investment of 30,000 euros.

Some 2 million Greeks without social insurance will be able to receive free treatment at state hospitals from next month as long as they get a referral from a doctor at the Primary National Healthcare Network (PEDY) which has replaced the national healthcare provider (EOPYY).

One hundred doctors who worked with the now defunct healthcare provider EOPYY have been asked to justify the number of prescriptions they issued, it emerged on Thursday.

The Health Ministry said it has sent letters to the doctors as they topped the lists for the cost of the prescriptions they issued.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Serbian Trade Union of Medical Doctors and Pharmacists (SLFS) staged a one-day warning strike early Monday, requesting that the solidarity tax be scrapped for their professions and the two-year ban on employment be lifted for the health care system.