“Get rid of the clutter”

Promedica Union, USMR-Alliance of Physicians and Hippocrates Federation reacts after another union on the ground, the Health Solidarity Federation, demanded that doctors not be accused of negligence during the pandemic.

All 3 unions say who do not share this position, which they consider “totally inappropriate”, given the fragility of the doctor-patient relationship, already known as a great problem in Romania.

“It just came to our knowledge then Faced with malpractice is the solution in this difficult context, but the change of attitude, removing from the press the problems that we face every day, due to administrative and legislative chaos, problems that affect doctors and patients alike. During this period, medical personnel must fight not only against the COVID-19 virus, but also against the deficiencies and disorganization of the health system. The main problems are based on the chaos in the health system, the lack of vision and organization ”, say the unionists.

They say that “a dirty game is being tried”, in which the doctors are dragged again.

“By not deserting and demanding immunity, we offer solutions. In this way, we only put the handkerchief back on the tambourine, to further deepen the real causes of tragedies in the health system, which hidden only deepen the well of insecurity for both doctors and patients. . The world is changing. The medical system has never experienced such a challenge. It is time to abandon the obsolete and sickly approach and open up new perspectives, for the medical staff, but also for the patients, ”say health unionists. cited by Mediafax.

They said that the greatest damage to health in the last 20 years has been the “destruction of the doctor-patient relationship.”

“Now, more than ever, medical staff must respect the relationship with the patient. In this difficult context, we, the representatives of the Promedica Union, the USMR-Alliance of Physicians and the Hippocrates Federation, encourage colleagues to publicly say the problems they face during this period and not only, to take action from the slightest irregularity , not to wait for it to break. boil. The union is here to support these types of situations and fight for their resolution. It is time for doctors and patients to fight together to show the irregularities they face, due to indifference, disorganization, corruption, chaos in the system ”, say the signatories of the document.

Representatives of the Romanian Federation of Solidarity with Health they asked yesterday authorities to suspend the provisions applicable to malpractice throughout the period of the COVID-19 pandemic for all health professionals, according to Mediafax.

Unionists to have justifyto cerershe through the frequent changes that occurred during the state of emergency and alertness, through the high dose of uncertainty typical of the COVID-19 pandemic, through material deficiencies and organizational problems faced by medical personnel.

Editing: Monica Bonea