ROMANIA FAMILY DOCTORS PROTEST

Family doctors protest over proposed payment rates in Bucharest

epa11085292 Romanian family doctors hold placards during a protest held in Bucharest, Romania, 17 January 2024. The placard on the right reads 'Do not destroy family doctors! I don't sign for bankruptcy! I want to be paid like a primary care doctor!'. Family doctors and outpatient specialist doctors protested for the third consecutive day, this time in front of the National Health Insurance House (CNAS) headquarters, dissatisfied with the settled rates. The payment rates per patient proposed by the CNAS for 2024 are lower than last year's, and family and outpatient doctors are threatening to stop signing contracts with the Health Insurance House from 01 February, which could mean that they will no longer provide free consultations settled starting next month, but for a fee. Doctors chanted 'We're not giving in!', 'Where's the health money?' or 'Without outpatient doctors, more people are dying!', 'We want to consult, not emigrate!'. EPA/Robert Ghement

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