Healthcare: Government approves TB National Control Strategy in Romania 2015-2020

The government approved by decision the TB National Contro, Strategy for 2015-2020, meant to reduce the incidence and mortality provoked by tuberculosis by prevention services, diagnosis, treatment and increase of treatment according to WHO recommendations.

According to a government press release Romania is the EU country with the highest incidence of TB, four times over the European average and has one of the lowest healing rates presenting an annual increase of the reservoir of infectious patients.

The source shows that by the strategy adopted by the executive, conditions will b ensured to eliminate TB as a public health problem in Romania until 2050.

“The strategy has in view to ensure universal access to rapid diagnosis methods, the diagnosis of at least 85% of estimated sensitive and drug resistant TB cases, the successful treatment of at least 90% of new cases and at least 85% of old treatments, the reduction of the general death rate caused by TB for at least 4.3 per 100,000 people, the general drop of disease incidence, the general improvement of the health system capacity to control TB,” the source informs.

As for strategy financing the government shows that adopting the document makes possible to mobilize resources from European structural funds over 2014-2020 and from other European grants.”

The strategy will be financed by: 145 million lei from structural funds over 2014-2020, 46 million lei from funds donated by Norway, 37 million lei coming from the Global Fund fighting against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, allocations from the state budget and other financing.

“The overall budget for the 2015-2020 strategy for diagnosis, treatment and lab equipping, supervision and human resources amounts to 1.571 billion lei”, the government shows.

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