ROMANIAN HEALTH MINISTRY RESPONDS AFTER BEING SUED BY PATIENTS

THE ROMANIAN health ministry is working on the revised list of medicines that patients suffering from cancer and other chronic disease could receive under their healthcare coverage in the country, after it was sued by patients’ organisations in May.“We hope to present the new list [of covered medicines] in autumn, as we have committed before,” a ministry spokeswoman told Manufacturing Chemist.The country’s Association of Cancer Patients sued the ministry, the Romanian government and the national health insurance organisation for failing to update, over ...


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