Gandul
The frame-contract for healthcare in the period 2011-2012 was supposed to take effect on April 1. Family doctors asked the authorities on Wednesday to postpone its introduction by one month, allowing time for the act to be amended according to their demands.
The authorities agreed to implement the new contract on June 1. Acts extending the application of the 2010 contract will be issued starting on April 1, when it is due to expire.
More than 80% of the family doctors in Romania have announced they will not sign the new frame-contracts on April 1, leaving patients unable to obtain discounted medicine and specialist appointments, said Doina Mihaila, president of family doctors’ association FNPMF.