Health Minister Alexandru Rafila has announced that chronically ill people will be able to receive compensated vaccines, according to a project the ministry is working on. Furthermore, the minister says that from next year he wants the HPV vaccine to be compensated.
Alexander RafilaPhotos: government, Facebook
- “I think we have taken a big step for patients with chronic diseases. It does not refer to the vaccination program for children. Anyone who has chronic diseases can benefit from a compensated vaccine. We are now working on the rules together with the House of Insurance, which must compensate for vaccines, so that patients with chronic diseases benefit from compensated vaccines, and also, our idea is to increase access.You have seen that there is great interest in HPV vaccine among teenage girls , let’s offset vaccines for papillomavirus infection as soon as possible, during the next year,” Alexandru Rafila told TVR Info on Monday, according to News. ro.
Rafila was asked if the rules for the anticancer plan will be finalized in 6 months, he explained that there is a working group at the Ministry of Health that deals with this issue.
- “Just to demonstrate that we are serious and not superficial, we proposed, before the adoption of the law, the introduction of an amendment that would allow the implementation of these rules in a reasonable period of time, i.e. 6 months. There is a working group established at the level of the Ministry of Health, in charge of this working group, State Secretary Baciu has already held the first meeting.This month we establish the list of regulatory acts to be developed and a time period with a program for the realization of these normative acts, so that at the end of 6 months we have the opportunity to have all the norms that we need to apply or develop during this period.Of course, there are other things that can be done later, but the rules that have to be implemented in these 6 months will certainly be implemented, because for this we have created a special structure headed by a state secretary, who will be responsible for d I find the technical support for the implementation of these standards,” said Rafila.
When asked how to get people to get checkups, for prevention, Rafila stressed that first of all patients should go to the family doctor.
“The idea is that for the checkup you have to go to the family doctor first. This idea that you have to go to the hospital to get a checkup is not correct,” Rafila said.
How many teenage girls aged 11-18 were vaccinated from 2020 to the summer of 2022
Almost 120,000 Romanian teenagers aged between 11 and 18 years they have been vaccinated against the HPV virus – the best known exclusively sexually transmitted viral infection in the world, responsible for the appearance of several types of cancer, the best known of which is cervical cancer – in the first 2 and a half years of the free campaign of the Ministry of Health.
- The free HPV vaccination campaign managed by the Ministry of Health started in 2020 and is currently aimed at girls aged between 11 and 18. In the first year and a half, the campaign was aimed only at girls between 11 and 14, but was extended last autumn to the 11-18 age group through an Order signed by Ioana Mihăilă, Minister of Health at the time, in his last days of mandate.
- 43,384 adolescent girls aged between 11 and 18 from Romania, the European country with the highest mortality caused by cervical cancer, were vaccinated free of charge against HPV in the free campaign promoted by the Ministry of Health, in the first half of 2022. The parents of another 22,009 had registered, up to the middle of this year, with requests from family doctors for their daughters to be vaccinated, shows the latest data centralized by the National Center for Surveillance and control of communicable diseases within the National Institute of Public Health, transmitted by the Ministry of Health at the request of HotNews.ro.
- 46,628 adolescent girls aged 11 to 18 in Romania were vaccinated against HPV free of charge as part of the free campaign conducted by the Ministry of Health in 2021. (data source: centralized data from the National Center for Surveillance and Control of communicable diseases within the Institute of Public Health and sent by the Ministry of Health at the request of HotNews.ro)
- 28,698 adolescent girls aged between 11 and 14 in Romania were vaccinated against HPV free of charge, as part of the free campaign conducted by the Ministry of Health in 2020. (data source: centralized data from the National Center for Surveillance and the control of communicable diseases within the National Institute of Public Health and sent by the Ministry of Health at the request of HotNews.ro)
