The Ministry of Health wants to introduce strict criteria for authorizing the establishment of new pharmacies, in order to increase the number of pharmacies in rural areas Patients' representatives claim that the measure is good, but it does not solve the problems in the system Laszlo Attila, senator: "In the absence of liberalization , I don't see how the future government ordinance will solve the situation of pharmacies, which are already having a very hard time" Florin Buicu, deputy: "If the number of pharmacies increases and they have lower sales than now, there is a risk of closure and the number of closed ones will be much higher than the current 20%"
The visit of the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, to Bucharest comes at a complicated time: the country has an interim government, and statistics on infections with the novel coronavirus are still worrying, even though the number of cases reported daily has fallen. Thierry Breton says that, with the coming of winter, the low vaccination rate endangers the health of Romanians, which is also an obstacle in the way of the full recovery of the country and the European Union as a whole.
The European official’s discussions with the Romanian authorities, with health professionals and non-governmental organizations representaives were a plea in favor of vaccination and introducing the green certificate, an issue tackled bya draft law currently debated in the Chamber of Deputies. The vote on the green COVID certificate, together with the vaccine, ensures survival during the pandemic, says the European Commissioner, Thierry Breton, who added tha